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Novel Methods and Culture Media for Culturing Pluripotent Stem Cells

US 11,959,098 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends no later than Aug 20, 2034 · Low confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Mar 5, 2020 as application 16/809,771 · Granted Apr 16, 2024
Base term plus 1078 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2011 2034
Clock starts
Sep 7, 2011
Ends no later than
Aug 20, 2034
Granted
Apr 16, 2024
base term patent term adjustment 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
1,078
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
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 1078 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 7, 2011, when application PCT/IL2011/000722, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 5, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 7, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+1078 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 20, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Aug 20, 2034Low confidence

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US 11,959,098this patent
no later than Aug 2034
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 15, 2021
Reel 54929, frame 72
Amit, Michal; Itskovitz-eldor, JosephTechnion Research & Development Foundation LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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