Term ends Feb 5, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 10, 2033
Filed Nov 11, 2014 as application 14/400,363 · Granted May 14, 2019
Base term plus 271 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013
Term ends
Feb 5, 2034
Feb 5, 2034
Granted
May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
271
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. 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 runs 271 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 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 May 10, 2013, when application PCT/EP2013/059701, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 11, 2014) | May 10, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +271 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 5, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 5, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,286,635 | this patent Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 10,864,708 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 11,413,854 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 11,691,399 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 12,053,960 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 12,427,758 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| Application 19/314,788 | 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 10, 2015 Reel 35126, frame 788 | Pudleiner, Heinz; Meyer, Klaus; Winkler, Juergen; Brauer, Wolfgang; Nickel, Joerg; Pehlert, Craig | Bayer MaterialScience AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 5, 2016 Reel 38358, frame 387 | Bayer MaterialScience AG | Covestro Deutschland AG | Change of Name |
| Dec 18, 2018 Reel 47803, frame 863 | Li, Chunhua; Chen, Yan | Align Technolocy, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47827, frame 222 | Align Technolocy, Inc. | Covestro Deutschland Aktiengesellschaft | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2034
Term ends Feb 5, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 271 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
31
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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