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(As of year 2005). Answer: Utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date the applications were filed. You must make the timely payment of the appropriate maintenance fees. Design patents last 14 years from the date you are granted the patent. No maintenance fees are required for design patents.
Researching expiration dates and terminal disclaimers in a patent family that takes two patent pages to explain is too large a task for idle curiosity. So, the idle curiosity answer is that the important SawStop patents probably expire somewhere around 2021, give or take two or three years. Remember, it would be foolish to use this information for anything other than satisfying idle curiosity or impressing friends at the TechShop.