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Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) and Patent Term Extensions (PTE)

Based on the available information, there is no specific mention of Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) or Patent Term Extensions (PTE) for US patent 8860337 in the provided text.

Generally, PTA can extend a patent's term due to delays by the USPTO during prosecution, such as failing to issue an office action within 14 months of filing, failing to respond to an applicant's reply within four months, or failing to issue the patent within three years of the filing date. These adjustments are added to the standard 20-year patent term from the earliest-filed non-provisional application in the family.

PTEs are typically associated with pharmaceutical products to compensate for delays in FDA approval and are limited to a single patent covering the pharmaceutical product, for up to five years. Since US patent 8860337 pertains to "Linear vibration modules and linear-resonant vibration modules," it is unlikely to be eligible for a PTE.

To definitively determine any PTA, one would need to review the patent's prosecution history on the USPTO website or utilize a patent term calculator.

Continuation and Divisional Applications

US patent 8860337 is identified as a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 12/782,697, which was filed on May 18, 2010, and resulted in U.S. Pat. No. 8,093,767. This earlier application, in turn, claimed the benefit of Provisional Patent Application No. 61/179,109, filed on May 18, 2009.

Additionally, the Google Patents information for US8860337B2 lists two other applications that claim priority from the same priority date (2009-05-18) and are related to US8860337B2:

• US14/469,210, filed on August 26, 2014, which resulted in US9369081B2.
• US15/181,249, filed on June 13, 2016, which resulted in US9941830B2.

The patent text explicitly mentions US14/469,210 as a "priority to US14/469,210" on 2014-08-26, and US15/181,249 as "priority to US15/181,249" on 2016-06-13, further establishing their familial relationship. While not explicitly stated as "continuation" or "divisional" in the snippets, the priority claims indicate a continuing family of applications.

Related Family Members

The patent family for US patent 8860337 includes:

• Parent Applications:
  • US Provisional Patent Application No. 61/179,109, filed May 18, 2009.
  • U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 12/782,697, filed May 18, 2010, which matured into U.S. Pat. No. 8,093,767.
• Continuations/Related Applications:
  • US13/345,607 (the application number for US8860337B2), filed January 6, 2012.
  • US14/469,210, filed August 26, 2014, which resulted in US9369081B2.
  • US15/181,249, filed June 13, 2016, which resulted in US9941830B2.

International counterparts are not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets.

Projected Expiration Date

The "Legal status" section of US patent 8860337 on Google Patents explicitly states: "Active, expires 2031-04-05". This date is listed as the "Adjusted expiration" date.

Therefore, the projected expiration date for US patent 8860337 is April 5, 2031.