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Preparation Derived from Shark Cartilage for Treatment of Diseased Related to Excessive PHF or Excessive Intracellular Calcium

US 7,358,342 Term ended
OverviewSources & methods

Term ended Oct 13, 2018 · Medium confidence

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

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on May 18, 2020.

Held by FX Life Sciences AG
Filed Apr 16, 2004 as application 10/825,661 · Granted Apr 15, 2008
Base term plus 96 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 13, 2018
1998 2026
Clock starts
Jul 9, 1998
Term ended
Oct 13, 2018
Granted
Apr 15, 2008
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
96
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.

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 Jul 9, 1998, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Apr 16, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jul 9, 2018High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+96 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 13, 2018High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on May 18, 2020, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 13, 2018Medium confidence

Sources

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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.

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

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