Methods to identify polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences which may be associated with physiological and medical conditions

US 7,247,425 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Jul 24, 2015 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Evolutionary Genomics, Inc. · find this owner

Filed Jun 30, 2004 as application 10/883,576 · Granted Jul 24, 2007

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 483 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Jul 24, 2015

1999 2026

Clock starts
Jan 29, 1999

No longer in force
Jul 24, 2015

Granted
Jul 24, 2007

Term would have run to
May 26, 2020

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

483

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 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.

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Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Jan 29, 1999, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jun 30, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jan 29, 2019	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	+483 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	May 26, 2020	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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Jul 24, 2015	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 24, 2015	From the USPTO record

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Methods to identify polynucleotide and polypeptide sequences which may be associated with physiological and medical conditions

Lapsed Jul 24, 2015 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Jan 29, 2019

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