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Polypeptides and Polynucleotides, and Uses Thereof as a Drug Target for Producing Drugs and Biologics

US 10,098,934 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 16, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Filed Mar 18, 2013 as application 13/845,420 · Granted Oct 16, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 470 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 16, 2026
2008 2029
Clock starts
Sep 3, 2008
No longer in force
Oct 16, 2026
Granted
Oct 16, 2018
Term would have run to
Dec 17, 2029
base term patent term adjustment 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
470
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Dec 17, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 470 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 3, 2008, when application PCT/US2008/075122, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 18, 2013)Sep 3, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+470 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 17, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"lapsed Oct 16, 2026Low confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 16, 2026Low confidence

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US 8,415,455Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,107,862Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,098,934this patent
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US 9,375,466Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2020
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US 9,555,087Lapsed on the fee record
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Application 15/011,521Abandoned
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Application 15/882,240Abandoned
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7 of 8 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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