Term ends May 20, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 17, 2036
Held by Universitat Basel
Filed May 3, 2018 as application 15/773,526 · Granted Jul 18, 2023
Base term plus 506 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Nov 17, 2016
Nov 17, 2016
Term ends
May 20, 2035
May 20, 2035
Granted
Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2023
base term
after the term ends
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
506
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 10,889,823.
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.
2
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 506 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Nov 17, 2016, when application PCT/EP2016/078087, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 3, 2018) | Nov 17, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +506 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 7, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,889,823) | capped to May 20, 2035 | 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 | May 20, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,702,663 | this patent May 2035 | May 2035 |
1 of 2 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 25, 2018 Reel 46195, frame 50 | Ittig, Simon; Amstutz, Marlise; Kasper, Christoph | Universitat Basel | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2035
Term ends May 20, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 506 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 10,889,823.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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