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Analysis of Patent Term, Continuity, and Expiration for US 10,355,863

This section details the term adjustments, application continuity, and projected expiration date for US Patent 10,355,863 based on data retrieved from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) and Extensions (PTE)

• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): A detailed review of the patent's file history on the USPTO's Patent Center indicates that US 10,355,863 has zero (0) days of Patent Term Adjustment. PTA is granted to compensate for certain administrative delays by the USPTO during the patent prosecution process. No such delays that would warrant PTA were calculated for this patent upon issuance.
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There is no Patent Term Extension for this patent. PTE is typically granted to compensate for delays caused by pre-market regulatory review, such as by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is not applicable to the subject matter of this patent.

Continuity and Related Application Data

US 10,355,863 is part of a large family of patents and applications and claims priority to several earlier filings. This lineage is crucial for determining its expiration date.

• Direct Continuation: The application for this patent (Ser. No. 15/835,816, filed December 8, 2017) is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/906,856, filed on March 9, 2005.
• Continuation-in-Part: The '856 application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/656,074, filed on September 6, 2000 (now issued as US Patent 7,203,838).
• Provisional Priority: The '074 application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/153,004, filed on September 9, 1999.

For the purpose of calculating the patent term, the 20-year period begins from the filing date of the earliest non-provisional application in the priority chain.

Projected Expiration Date

The term of a U.S. patent is generally 20 years from the earliest effective non-provisional filing date to which it claims priority.

1. Earliest Non-Provisional Filing Date: Based on the continuity data, the earliest non-provisional application in the chain is Ser. No. 09/656,074, which was filed on September 6, 2000.
2. Base Term Calculation: The 20-year term, calculated from this earliest filing date, ends on September 6, 2020.
3. Adjustments: As there are zero days of PTA or PTE, no time is added to the base term.
4. Final Expiration Date: The projected expiration date for US 10,355,863 was September 6, 2020.

Current Status: According to USPTO records, US Patent 10,355,863 is now Expired. The patent's status is listed as "Expired - Fee Related," which indicates that it lapsed due to the non-payment of required maintenance fees after its projected expiration date had passed.