Term ends Dec 10, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 16, 2034
Held by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Filed Nov 16, 2015 as application 14/891,403 · Granted Mar 24, 2020
Base term plus 527 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014
Term ends
Dec 10, 2032
Dec 10, 2032
Granted
Mar 24, 2020
Mar 24, 2020
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
527
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 10,582,722, US 10,583,097, US 11,478,010.
1 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.
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 527 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 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 May 16, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/060038, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 16, 2015) | May 16, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +527 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 25, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,582,722, US 10,583,097, US 11,478,010) | capped to Dec 10, 2032 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 10, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,596,108 | this patent Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 10,806,699 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
2 of 3 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 2, 2017 Reel 42387, frame 147 | Burbidge, Adam; Engmann, Jan; Kaspar, Kala Marie; Jedwab, Michael | Nestec S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 6, 2019 Reel 49391, frame 756 | Nestec S.A. | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | Merger |
| Jun 13, 2019 Reel 49853, frame 398 | Nestec S.A. | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the English Translation to Show the Full and Correct New Name in Section 51. Previously Recorded at Reel: 049391 Frame: 0756. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Jul 3, 2020 Reel 54082, frame 165 | Nestec S.A. | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Number 16062921 Previously Recorded on Reel 049391 Frame 0756. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Patent Number Should Have Been 16062912. |
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What's changing
Dec 2032
Term ends Dec 10, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 527 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 10,582,722, US 10,583,097, US 11,478,010.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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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