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Topical Administration of Amifostine and Related Compounds

US 7,151,094 Term ended
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Term ended Sep 15, 2019 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Clinigen Group PLC
Filed Jun 22, 2004 as application 10/872,870 · Granted Dec 19, 2006
Base term plus 142 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 15, 2019
1999 2026
Clock starts
Apr 26, 1999
Term ended
Sep 15, 2019
Granted
Dec 19, 2006
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events 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
142
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 6,753,323, to Sep 15, 2019. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
3 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.

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 filingClock starts Apr 26, 1999, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jun 22, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Apr 26, 2019High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+142 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 15, 2019High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 6,753,323)resolves to Sep 15, 2019, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 15, 2019Medium confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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