Term ended Oct 12, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 12, 2026
Held by Morphosys AG
Filed Oct 8, 2015 as application 14/877,958 · Granted Jan 22, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 12, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 12, 2006
Oct 12, 2006
Term ended
Oct 12, 2026
Oct 12, 2026
Granted
Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,088,896, US 8,486,394, to Oct 12, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Oct 12, 2006, when application PCT/EP2006/009889, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 8, 2015) | Oct 12, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,088,896, US 8,486,394) | resolves to Oct 12, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 12, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,088,896 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,486,394 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,193,799 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 10,184,005 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,059,902 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 11,939,395 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| Application 18/418,804 | Pending not computed | not computed |
7 of 8 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2018 Reel 45401, frame 729 | Jager, Ute; Tesar, Michael | Morphosys AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,088,896, US 8,486,394, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.