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Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Biliary Access System

US 9,782,565 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Oct 10, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Covidien LP
Filed Sep 24, 2014 as application 14/494,685 · Granted Oct 10, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 418 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 10, 2025
2008 2029
Clock starts
Oct 1, 2008
No longer in force
Oct 10, 2025
Granted
Oct 10, 2017
Term would have run to
Nov 23, 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
418
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.
10
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 Nov 23, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 418 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 Oct 1, 2008, when application 12/243,367, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 24, 2014)Oct 1, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+418 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 23, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 10, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 10, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,186,128In force
Aug 2031
Aug 2031
US 8,968,210In force
Dec 2029
Dec 2029
Application 13/029,593Abandoned
not computed
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US 9,332,973In force
Dec 2031
Dec 2031
US 9,782,565this patent
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
US 9,913,630In force
Apr 2030
Apr 2030
US 10,076,316In force
Oct 2028
Oct 2028
US 11,039,816In force
Apr 2029
Apr 2029
8 of 10 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
Oct 3, 2014
Reel 33885, frame 312
McWeeney, John O.Covidien LPAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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