Lapsed Jun 28, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 17, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Mary Kay Inc.
Filed Apr 24, 2013 as application 13/869,442 · Granted Jun 28, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 694 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 28, 2024
2007
2029
Clock starts
May 17, 2007
May 17, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 28, 2024
Jun 28, 2024
Granted
Jun 28, 2016
Jun 28, 2016
Term would have run to
Apr 10, 2029
Apr 10, 2029
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
694
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
8
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 Apr 10, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 694 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 17, 2007, when application 11/749,869, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 24, 2013) | May 17, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +694 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 10, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 28, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 28, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,932,417 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,258,121 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,431,731 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,375,391 | this patent Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 10,045,921 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application 16/032,596 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,793,737 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 12,285,509 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2016 Reel 38020, frame 496 | Mentlik, Anton; Swanzy, James | Mary Kay Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 694 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 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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