Term ends Jul 30, 2029 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 8, 2028
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Genentech, Inc.
Filed Nov 2, 2020 as application 17/087,313 · Granted May 2, 2023
Base term plus 387 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2029
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2008
Jul 8, 2008
Term ends
Jul 30, 2029
Jul 30, 2029
Granted
May 2, 2023
May 2, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
387
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
18
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 387 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jul 8, 2008, when application 12/217,745, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 2, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jul 8, 2028 | 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 | +387 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 30, 2029 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 30, 2029 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 12/217,745 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,574,869 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| Application 14/043,758 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/488,917 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,759,866 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 10,906,986 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 10,808,037 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 11,639,395 | this patent Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
8 of 18 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2029
Term ends Jul 30, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 387 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 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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