Surrendered on reissue Feb 13, 2018 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 6, 2032
Surrendered on reissue Feb 13, 2018 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE46,711.
Held by Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
Filed Sep 2, 2013 as application 14/016,209 · Granted Jul 1, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Surrendered Feb 13, 2018
2012
2032
Clock starts
Nov 6, 2012
Nov 6, 2012
No longer in force
Feb 13, 2018
Feb 13, 2018
Granted
Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014
Term would have run to
Nov 6, 2032
Nov 6, 2032
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 8,599,495, to Nov 6, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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Maintenance fees paid
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.
14
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 is 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: Low. 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 Nov 6, 2012, when application 13/669,445, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 2, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 6, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,599,495) | resolves to Nov 6, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | no change | Low confidence |
| Reissue | US RE46,711 issued Feb 13, 2018, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Feb 13, 2018 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Feb 13, 2018 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,599,495 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 8,767,315 | this patent Feb 2018 | Feb 2018 |
| US 8,902,511 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 9,213,168 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 9,435,986 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| US RE46,711 | In force no later than Nov 2032 | no later than Nov 2032 |
| US 9,690,078 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| US 10,197,773 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2013 Reel 31138, frame 645 | Tsai, Tsung-han; Huang, Hsin-hsuan | Largan Precision Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,599,495, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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