Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 16, 2016 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Term ended Sep 27, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 27, 2024
Held by NuVasive, Inc.
Filed Apr 23, 2007 as application 11/789,284 · Granted Sep 13, 2011
Base term plus 1022 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Sep 27, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2004
Sep 27, 2004
Term ended
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
Granted
Sep 13, 2011
Sep 13, 2011
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
1,022
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,207,949.
3 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
29
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 1022 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Sep 27, 2004, when application PCT/US2004/031768, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 23, 2007) | Sep 27, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1022 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 16, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,207,949) | capped to Sep 27, 2024 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 27, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2004/031768 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,905,840 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 7,207,949 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,313,430 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,016,767 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,355,780 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 8,303,515 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 8,388,527 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
8 of 29 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2009 Reel 23705, frame 447 | Miles, Patrick; Martinelli, Scot; Finley, Eric | NuVasive, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2016 Reel 40634, frame 404 | NuVasive, Inc.; Impulse Monitoring, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| May 17, 2017 Reel 42490, frame 236 | NuVasive, Inc.; Biotronic National, LLC; NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc.; NuVasive Clinical Services, Inc.; NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Feb 28, 2020 Reel 52918, frame 595 | NuVasive, Inc.; NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc.; NuVasive Clinical Services, Inc.; NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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Note
The 1022 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,207,949.
Citations
271
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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