Term ends Feb 27, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 27, 2027
Held by Genentech, Inc.
Filed Oct 30, 2015 as application 14/928,129 · Granted Jan 15, 2019
Base term plus 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2007
Feb 27, 2007
Term ends
Feb 27, 2027
Feb 27, 2027
Granted
Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019
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
106
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 8,668,334, US 9,186,293.
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.
3
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 106 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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 Feb 27, 2007, when application 11/679,564, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 30, 2015) | Feb 27, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +106 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 13, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,668,334, US 9,186,293) | capped to Feb 27, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 27, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,668,334 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 9,186,293 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 10,179,081 | this patent Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
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 30, 2015 Reel 36924, frame 213 | Krenik, William R. | Vital Art and Science Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2015 Reel 37009, frame 501 | Vital Art and Science Incorporated | Vital Art and Science, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| May 9, 2017 Reel 42303, frame 686 | Vital Art and Science, LLC | Montgomery Capital Partners II, LP | Security Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 47558, frame 832 | Vital Art and Science, LLC | Genentech, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2027
Term ends Feb 27, 2027.
Note
The 106 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 8,668,334, US 9,186,293.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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.