Term ended Aug 6, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 6, 2024
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Oct 5, 2026.
Held by Firmenich Incorporated
Filed Oct 8, 2014 as application 14/509,761 · Granted Aug 28, 2018
Base term plus 348 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Aug 6, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 6, 2004
Aug 6, 2004
Term ended
Aug 6, 2024
Aug 6, 2024
Granted
Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
base term
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
348
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,895,050.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
7
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 348 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 6, 2004, when application 10/913,303, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 8, 2014) | Aug 6, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +348 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 20, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,895,050) | capped to Aug 6, 2024 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Oct 5, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 6, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,476,399 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 8,124,121 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,895,050 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 10,060,909 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 10,557,845 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 11,268,952 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| Application 17/678,512 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2014 Reel 33957, frame 1 | Tachdjian, Catherine; Patron, Andrew P.; Adamski-werner, Sara L.; Bakir, Farid; Chen, Qing; Darmohusodo, Vincent; Hobson, Stephen Terrence; Li, Xiaodong; Qi, Ming; Rinnova, Marketa; Servant, Guy; Tang, Xiao-qing; Zoller, Mark; Wallace, David; Xing, Amy; Gubernator, Klaus | Senomyx, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 15, 2014 Reel 34200, frame 439 | Rogers, Daniel H. | Senomyx, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2021 Reel 58037, frame 260 | Senomyx, Inc. | Firmenich Incorporated | Merger |
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Note
The 348 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,895,050.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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