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Circular Needle Applier with Offset Needle and Carrier Tracks

US 9,398,905 In force
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Term ends Jan 25, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Mar 15, 2013 as application 13/832,786 · Granted Jul 26, 2016
Base term plus 316 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2034
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2013
Term ends
Jan 25, 2034
Granted
Jul 26, 2016
base term patent term adjustment 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
316
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
20
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 316 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 15, 2013, when this application, 13/832,786, was filedMar 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+316 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 25, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 25, 2034High confidence

This family

US 9,357,998In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 9,427,227In force
no later than May 2035
no later than May 2035
US 9,498,207In force
no later than Nov 2034
no later than Nov 2034
US 9,398,905this patent
Jan 2034
Jan 2034
US 9,486,209In force
no later than Sep 2033
no later than Sep 2033
Application 13/832,867Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 9,173,655In force
Sep 2033
Sep 2033
Application 13/832,986Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 20 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 9, 2013
Reel 30180, frame 474
Martin, David T.Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 5, 2015
Reel 37219, frame 879
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 28, 2017
Reel 41828, frame 945
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCEthicon LLCChange of Name
Apr 27, 2021
Reel 56601, frame 339
Ethicon LLCCilag GmbH InternationalAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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