Lapsed Feb 18, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 21, 2029
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
Filed Dec 21, 2009 as application 12/643,338 · Granted Feb 18, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 319 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 18, 2024
2009
2030
Clock starts
Dec 21, 2009
Dec 21, 2009
No longer in force
Feb 18, 2024
Feb 18, 2024
Granted
Feb 18, 2020
Feb 18, 2020
Term would have run to
Nov 5, 2030
Nov 5, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
319
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
20
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 5, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 319 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Dec 21, 2009, when this application, 12/643,338, was filed | Dec 21, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +319 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 5, 2030 | 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 18, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 18, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,659,037 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 10,565,170 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 10,437,962 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 9,918,635 | In force Feb 2030 | Feb 2030 |
| US 10,456,036 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 8,849,458 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Application 12/974,859 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2010/061573 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2010 Reel 24346, frame 716 | Walling, P. Douglas; Weinert, Stefan; Bousamra, Steven; Soni, Abhishek S. | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2010 Reel 24346, frame 817 | Rasch-menges, Juergen; Eisenhardt, Christoph | Roche Diagnostics GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2010 Reel 24396, frame 602 | Roche Diagnostics GmbH | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 23, 2015 Reel 36008, frame 670 | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 319 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
214
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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