Lapsed Feb 25, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 14, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Otonomy, Inc.
Filed Jul 25, 2011 as application 13/190,327 · Granted Feb 25, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 25, 2022
2009
2029
Clock starts
May 14, 2009
May 14, 2009
No longer in force
Feb 25, 2022
Feb 25, 2022
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014
Term would have run to
May 14, 2029
May 14, 2029
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,030,297, US 8,680,082, US 8,680,083, to May 14, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
27
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to May 14, 2029: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 14, 2009, when application 12/466,310, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 25, 2011) | May 14, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,030,297, US 8,680,082, US 8,680,083) | resolves to May 14, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 25, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 25, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,132,087 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 8,030,297 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,318,817 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2009/051172 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,546,363 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,828,980 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| US 8,658,626 | this patent Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 8,680,082 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
8 of 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2011 Reel 26778, frame 156 | Lichter, Jay; Vollrath, Benedikt; Duron, Sergio G.; Piu, Fabrice; Dellamary, Luis A.; Ye, Qiang; Lebel, Carl; Scaife, Michael Christopher; Trammel, Andrew M. | Otonomy, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2011 Reel 26778, frame 183 | Harris, Jeffrey P. | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,030,297, US 8,680,082, US 8,680,083, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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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