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Device for Selectively Reducing Absorption of Unhealthy Food

US 9,456,916 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 4, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 12, 2013 as application 13/797,955 · Granted Oct 4, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 679 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 4, 2020
2013 2035
Clock starts
Mar 12, 2013
No longer in force
Oct 4, 2020
Granted
Oct 4, 2016
Term would have run to
Jan 20, 2035
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
679
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
98
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 Jan 20, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 679 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 12, 2013, when this application, 13/797,955, was filedMar 12, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+679 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 20, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 4, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 4, 2020High confidence

This family

US 9,042,596In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 9,034,428Lapsed on the fee record
May 2023
May 2023
Application 13/616,238Abandoned
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US 9,456,916this patent
Oct 2020
Oct 2020
US 9,536,449Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
US 9,254,099In force
Feb 2034
Feb 2034
Application 13/902,919Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 14/071,112Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 98 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
Jul 9, 2018
Reel 46297, frame 67
Connor, Robert A., DR.Medibotics LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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