Term ends Dec 19, 2036 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 19, 2036
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Conopco, Inc., D/B/A Unilever
Filed Aug 3, 2020 as application 16/983,376 · Granted Jul 18, 2023
Base term plus 110 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016
Term ends
Dec 19, 2036
Dec 19, 2036
Granted
Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2023
base term
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
110
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 10,730,669.
0 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.
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 110 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Dec 19, 2016, when application PCT/EP2016/081755, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 3, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 19, 2036 | 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 | +110 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 8, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,730,669) | capped to Dec 19, 2036 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 19, 2036 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,730,669 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 11,312,543 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 11,702,251 | this patent Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 11,794,956 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 12,595,095 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
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 6, 2023 Reel 63867, frame 710 | Cesare, Slavica; Lalier, Gregory | Conopco, Inc., D/B/A Unilever | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Dec 2036
Term ends Dec 19, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 110 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 10,730,669.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.