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Sustained Release of Antiinfectives

US 7,544,369 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 19, 2022 (Orbimed Royalty & Credit Opportunities IV, LP).

Term ended Jun 6, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Oct 29, 2003 as application 10/696,389 · Granted Jun 9, 2009
Base term plus 586 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jun 6, 2025
2003 2026
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2003
Term ended
Jun 6, 2025
Granted
Jun 9, 2009
base term patent term adjustment 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
586
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
25
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 586 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 29, 2003, when this application, 10/696,389, was filedOct 29, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+586 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 6, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 6, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,544,369this patent
Jun 2025
Jun 2025
Application 11/023,971Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,718,189In force
no later than Feb 2027
no later than Feb 2027
US 7,879,351In force
no later than Nov 2026
no later than Nov 2026
Application PCT/US2006/027859PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2007/008404PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 12/424,177Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,802,137Term ended
Apr 2024
Apr 2024
8 of 25 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 31, 2004
Reel 15157, frame 513
Boni, Lawrence T.; Miller, Brian S.Transave, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 7, 2013
Reel 30959, frame 547
Transave, Inc.Transave, LLCMerger
Aug 7, 2013
Reel 30959, frame 682
Transave, LLCInsmed IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 19, 2022
Reel 61727, frame 39
Insmed IncorporatedOrbimed Royalty & Credit Opportunities IV, LPSecond Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 20, 2022
Reel 61735, frame 875
Insmed IncorporatedBiopharma Credit PLCPatent Security Agreement

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.

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