Surrendered on reissue Jul 28, 2020 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 31, 2031
Surrendered on reissue Jul 28, 2020 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE48,115 and US RE49,103.
Held by Anthony, Inc.
Filed Aug 5, 2015 as application 14/819,257 · Granted Nov 29, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Surrendered Jul 28, 2020
2011
2031
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2011
Oct 31, 2011
No longer in force
Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 2016
Term would have run to
Oct 31, 2031
Oct 31, 2031
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 9,052,536, US 9,155,405, to Oct 31, 2031. 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.
6
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 Oct 31, 2011, when application 13/286,053, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 5, 2015) | Oct 31, 2031 | 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 9,052,536, US 9,155,405) | resolves to Oct 31, 2031, 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 RE48,115 and US RE49,103 issued Jul 28, 2020, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Jul 28, 2020 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Jul 28, 2020 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,683,745 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,052,536 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,155,405 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,504,338 | this patent Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
| US RE48,115 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US RE49,103 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
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 5, 2015 Reel 36262, frame 287 | Artwohl, Paul J.; Nicholson, Jeffery W.; Sandnes, Mark | Anthony, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,052,536, US 9,155,405, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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