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Method, Device and System for Filling Pharmaceutical Containers

US 10,781,002 In force
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Term ends Aug 15, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Feb 15, 2016 as application 14/912,145 · Granted Sep 22, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Aug 15, 2014
Term ends
Aug 15, 2034
Granted
Sep 22, 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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
42
Family applications on record here
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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 15, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/051223, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 15, 2016)Aug 15, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 15, 2034High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2013/039455PCT application
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Application PCT/US2014/051223PCT application
no patent term
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US 10,081,527In force
Apr 2034
Apr 2034
US 10,781,002this patent
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
US 10,781,003In force
May 2035
May 2035
US 9,993,815In force
Jun 2033
Jun 2033
Application 15/264,554Abandoned
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US 10,067,151In force
Dec 2036
Dec 2036
8 of 42 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 21, 2017
Reel 42774, frame 106
Broadbent, Nick; Immerzeel, Jeroen; Procyshyn, Christopher; Gold, Ross; Park, Sang JoonVanrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 13, 2020
Reel 53481, frame 748
Vanrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Vanrx Pharmasystems Inc.Change of Name

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