Also listed on Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., an earlier holder on the record.
Term ends Jul 19, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 12, 2033
Held by Plant Bioscience Limited
Filed Oct 14, 2019 as application 16/601,502 · Granted Jun 27, 2023
Base term plus 310 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Sep 12, 2013
Sep 12, 2013
Term ends
Jul 19, 2034
Jul 19, 2034
Granted
Jun 27, 2023
Jun 27, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
310
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.
4
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 310 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 Sep 12, 2013, when application 14/025,737, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 14, 2019) | Sep 12, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +310 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 19, 2034 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 19, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,567,650 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,472,685 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 11,685,959 | this patent Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| Application 18/309,398 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Jul 2034
Term ends Jul 19, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 310 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
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