Term ended Feb 22, 2020 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 22, 2020
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Panorama Research, Inc.
Filed Nov 17, 2005 as application 11/283,241 · Granted Feb 5, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Feb 22, 2020
2000
2026
Clock starts
Feb 22, 2000
Feb 22, 2000
Term ended
Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020
Granted
Feb 5, 2008
Feb 5, 2008
base term
after the term ends
fee events
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
43
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 22, 2000, when application 09/510,099, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 22, 2020 | 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 | None on file | no change | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 22, 2020 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,620,845 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2015 | Sep 2015 |
| Application 60/630,885 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,326,730 | this patent Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| US 7,619,007 | Term ended no later than Nov 2025 | no later than Nov 2025 |
| US 8,058,291 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2006/013506 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/011887 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,168,209 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
8 of 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2007 Reel 19829, frame 122 | Neuromolecular, Inc. | Neuromolecular Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Sep 17, 2007 Reel 19831, frame 413 | Neuromolecular Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 1, 2013 Reel 31322, frame 613 | Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Panorama Research, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
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