Also listed on Agraquest, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 14, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 14, 2030
Held by Bayer CropScience LLC
Filed Feb 22, 2016 as application 15/050,100 · Granted Dec 25, 2018
Base term plus 388 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Jun 14, 2010
Jun 14, 2010
Term ends
Jun 14, 2030
Jun 14, 2030
Granted
Dec 25, 2018
Dec 25, 2018
base term
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
388
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 9,295,250.
2 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.
4
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 388 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jun 14, 2010, when application 12/815,274, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 22, 2016) | Jun 14, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +388 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 7, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,295,250) | capped to Jun 14, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 14, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/815,274 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2010/038551 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,295,250 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,159,248 | this patent Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2016 Reel 37815, frame 1 | Jimenez, Desmond; Janssen, Giselle; Long, Dennis; Highland, Brett; Lu, Tara; Bueno, Gerardo | Agraquest, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2016 Reel 37901, frame 728 | Agraquest, Inc. | Bayer CropScience LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 9, 2017 Reel 44085, frame 645 | Wright, Nicholas | Agraquest, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 12, 2019 Reel 50369, frame 203 | Bayer CropScience LP | Bayer CropScience LP | Change of Address |
| Jan 21, 2026 Reel 74476, frame 974 | Bayer CropScience LP | Bayer CropScience LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2030
Term ends Jun 14, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 388 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 9,295,250.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.