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Term, Adjustment, and Family Details for U.S. Patent 10,404,366

Based on the records from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for U.S. Patent 10,404,366 ('366), the following details regarding its term, related applications, and patent family have been compiled.

Patent Term and Expiration

• Standard Term: The standard term for a U.S. patent is 20 years from the earliest effective non-provisional filing date. The application for the '366 patent (US 16/039,739) was filed on July 19, 2018. However, this application is a continuation of an earlier application, and its earliest priority date is claimed from an international application (PCT/JP2016/001102) filed on March 1, 2016, which itself claims priority from a Japanese application filed on March 4, 2015. For term calculation purposes, the 20-year clock starts from the PCT filing date of March 1, 2016.
• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): There are no recorded Patent Term Adjustments for this patent. The USPTO issues PTAs to compensate for certain administrative delays during prosecution. The absence of a PTA indicates that no qualifying delays were identified by the USPTO.
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There are no recorded Patent Term Extensions for this patent. PTE is typically granted for delays caused by pre-market regulatory review by agencies like the FDA and is not applicable here.
• Projected Expiration Date: The projected expiration date for U.S. Patent 10,404,366 is March 1, 2036. This is calculated by adding 20 years to the international filing date of March 1, 2016. The expiration is contingent upon the timely payment of all required maintenance fees.

Continuity and Related Applications

U.S. Patent 10,404,366 is part of a series of related applications, indicating a strategy of filing continuation applications to pursue additional claims related to the original invention.

• Parent Applications:

  • This patent is a continuation of U.S. Application No. 15/551,810 (now U.S. Patent No. 10,056,976), which was filed on August 17, 2017.
  • The '810 application is the U.S. national stage of International Application No. PCT/JP2016/001102, filed on March 1, 2016.

• Child (Continuation) Applications:
  The inventive subject matter has been further pursued in subsequent applications that claim priority back to the '366 patent's parent applications. These continuations form a direct line of descent and are considered part of the same patent family. Known continuations include:

  • U.S. Application No. 16/440,002 (now U.S. Patent No. 10,805,003)
  • U.S. Application No. 17/032,992 (now U.S. Patent No. 11,206,080)
  • U.S. Application No. 17/526,052 (now U.S. Patent No. 11,764,870)
  • U.S. Application No. 18/363,272 (Published as US 2023/0379053 A1)

Patent Family Members

The patent family for U.S. Patent 10,404,366 includes the U.S. patents and applications listed above, as well as their international counterparts that claim priority from the same original Japanese filing (JP 2015-042535).

• International (PCT) Application: WO 2016/139933 A1
• European Patent Office (EPO): EP 3267598 B1
• China (CNIPA): CN 107408983 B
• Japan (JPO): JP 6361814 B2