Term ends Sep 16, 2029 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 16, 2029
Held by Bayer Oy
Filed Feb 7, 2018 as application 15/891,187 · Granted Feb 18, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Sep 16, 2009
Sep 16, 2009
Term ends
Sep 16, 2029
Sep 16, 2029
Granted
Feb 18, 2020
Feb 18, 2020
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,615,965, to Sep 16, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
10
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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Sep 16, 2009, when application PCT/FI2009/050738, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 7, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 16, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,615,965) | resolves to Sep 16, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15470870, 15245042, 14088329, 13771066 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2029 | Low confidence |
This family
| Application 13/119,401 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/771,066 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,452,082 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 9,615,965 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| Application 15/470,870 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,561,524 | this patent Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 11,872,155 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 12,539,228 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2021 Reel 55850, frame 1 | Lyytikäinen, Heikki; Jutila, Ilkka; Alonso, Ulla Calvo; Jukarainen, Harri; Tjäder, Taina; Macleod, Andrew; Noble, Michael; Whitaker, David | Bayer Oy | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2029
Term ends Sep 16, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,615,965, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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
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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.