Term ended Dec 5, 2021 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 5, 2021
Held by Celularity, Inc.
Filed Jul 21, 2005 as application 11/187,400 · Granted Dec 29, 2009
Base term plus 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 5, 2021
2001
2026
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2001
Dec 5, 2001
Term ended
Dec 5, 2021
Dec 5, 2021
Granted
Dec 29, 2009
Dec 29, 2009
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
126
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,045,148, US 7,255,879, US 7,468,276.
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.
53
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 126 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 5, 2001, when application 10/004,942, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 21, 2005) | Dec 5, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +126 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 10, 2022 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,045,148, US 7,255,879, US 7,468,276) | capped to Dec 5, 2021 | 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 | Dec 5, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,045,148 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,311,904 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 10/076,180 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,311,905 | Term ended no later than Oct 2022 | no later than Oct 2022 |
| US 7,255,879 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,468,276 | Term ended Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 7,638,141 | this patent Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 7,682,803 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
8 of 53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 2010 Reel 24631, frame 611 | Hariri, Robert J. | Anthrogenesis Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44413, frame 680 | Anthrogenesis Corporation | Clarity Acquisition II LLC | Merger |
| Nov 9, 2017 Reel 44780, frame 261 | Clarity Acquisition II LLC | Celularity, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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.
What's changing
Note
The 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,045,148, US 7,255,879, US 7,468,276.
Citations
125
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2009 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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