Term ends Jan 7, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 7, 2033
Held by Université de Montpellier
Filed Jun 27, 2018 as application 16/020,447 · Granted Mar 16, 2021
Base term plus 165 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Jan 7, 2013
Jan 7, 2013
Term ends
Jan 7, 2033
Jan 7, 2033
Granted
Mar 16, 2021
Mar 16, 2021
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
165
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 10,034,919, US 9,492,562, US 9,878,014.
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.
6
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 165 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 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 Jan 7, 2013, when application PCT/EP2013/050787, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 27, 2018) | Jan 7, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +165 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 21, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,034,919, US 9,492,562, US 9,878,014) | capped to Jan 7, 2033 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 7, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,492,562 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 9,878,014 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 10,034,919 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 10,946,070 | this patent Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| Application 17/171,426 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2018 Reel 46228, frame 10 | Tavernier, Jan; Uze, Gilles; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Piehler, Jacob | Vib VZW; Universiteit Gent; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Université Montpellier 2; Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier; Universitat Osnabruck | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 Reel 46452, frame 741 | Université Montpellier 2; Université de Montpellier | Université de Montpellier | Merger and Change of Name |
| Jun 28, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Tavernier, Jan; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Uze, Gilles; Piehler, Jacob | Vib VZW | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Tavernier, Jan; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Uze, Gilles; Piehler, Jacob | Universiteit Gent | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Tavernier, Jan; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Uze, Gilles; Piehler, Jacob | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Tavernier, Jan; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Uze, Gilles; Piehler, Jacob | Université Montpellier 2 | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Tavernier, Jan; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Uze, Gilles; Piehler, Jacob | Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire de Montpellier | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Tavernier, Jan; Cartron, Guillaume; Paul, Franciane; Uze, Gilles; Piehler, Jacob | Universitat Osnabruck | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2033
Term ends Jan 7, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 165 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 10,034,919, US 9,492,562, US 9,878,014.
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
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