Term ends Aug 23, 2042 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 4, 2041
Held by Hello Sweety AG
Filed Feb 13, 2023 as application 18/021,103 · Granted Jan 27, 2026
Base term plus 384 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2021
2042
Clock starts
Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021
Term ends
Aug 23, 2042
Aug 23, 2042
Granted
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026
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
384
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 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.
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 384 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 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 Aug 4, 2021, when application PCT/IB2021/057149, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 13, 2023) | Aug 4, 2041 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +384 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 23, 2042 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 23, 2042 | High confidence |
This family
| US 12,532,903 | this patent Aug 2042 | Aug 2042 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2023 Reel 62676, frame 795 | Paa, Marcel | Hello Sweety AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2042
Term ends Aug 23, 2042. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 384 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
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