Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 29, 2008 (Kaupthing Bank HF).
Term ended Mar 9, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 23, 2023
Held by Ossur HF
Filed Jan 18, 2007 as application 11/654,549 · Granted Oct 11, 2011
Base term plus 830 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Mar 9, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Oct 23, 2003
Oct 23, 2003
Term ended
Mar 9, 2024
Mar 9, 2024
Granted
Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
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
830
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 7,025,793, US 7,749,281.
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.
17
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 830 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 Oct 23, 2003, when application 10/690,545, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 18, 2007) | Oct 23, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +830 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,025,793, US 7,749,281) | capped to Mar 9, 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 | Mar 9, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,025,793 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 7,749,281 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 7,909,884 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,034,120 | this patent Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2007/018684 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,097,043 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,052,760 | Term ended no later than Oct 2023 | no later than Oct 2023 |
| US 8,894,719 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
8 of 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 2007 Reel 18867, frame 786 | Egilsson, Egill S.; Asgeirsson, Sigurdur; Hrafnsdottir, Jenny R.; Jonsson, Grimur | Ossur HF | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2007 Reel 20130, frame 963 | Ossur HF | Ossur North America, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 3, 2008 Reel 20322, frame 776 | Ossur North America, Inc. | Ossur HF | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 29, 2008 Reel 21301, frame 599 | Ossur HF | Kaupthing Bank HF | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 25, 2009 Reel 22299, frame 936 | Ossur HF | Kaupthing Bank HF | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance from "Assignment of Assignor's Interest" to "Security Agreement." Previously Recorded on Reel 021301 Frame 0599. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Agreement. |
| May 18, 2011 Reel 26298, frame 151 | Arion Bank HF | Ossur HF | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 830 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 7,025,793, US 7,749,281.
Citations
169
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
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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