Term ends Jun 27, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 21, 2024
Held by Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Filed Jan 23, 2006 as application 10/565,580 · Granted Mar 30, 2010
Base term plus 1101 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Jun 21, 2004
Jun 21, 2004
Term ends
Jun 27, 2027
Jun 27, 2027
Granted
Mar 30, 2010
Mar 30, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,101
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.
79
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 1101 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 21, 2004, when application PCT/EP2004/006674, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 23, 2006) | Jun 21, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1101 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 27, 2027 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 27, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,192,419 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 |
| US 7,029,669 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 |
| US 6,887,465 | Term ended Mar 2020 | Mar 2020 |
| US 7,368,272 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2012 | May 2012 |
| US 6,733,770 | Term ended Mar 2020 | Mar 2020 |
| US 6,835,376 | Term ended Mar 2020 | Mar 2020 |
| US 6,939,705 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2013 | Sep 2013 |
| US 7,084,107 | Term ended no later than Apr 2020 | no later than Apr 2020 |
8 of 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2010 Reel 24102, frame 833 | Mandralis, Zenon Ioannis; Koch, Peter; Campiche, Francisco; Denisart, Jean-luc; Cahen, Antoine; Yoakim, Alfred | Nestec S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 6, 2019 Reel 49391, frame 756 | Nestec S.A. | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | Merger |
| Jun 13, 2019 Reel 49853, frame 398 | Nestec S.A. | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the English Translation to Show the Full and Correct New Name in Section 51. Previously Recorded at Reel: 049391 Frame: 0756. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Jul 3, 2020 Reel 54082, frame 165 | Nestec S.A. | Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Number 16062921 Previously Recorded on Reel 049391 Frame 0756. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Patent Number Should Have Been 16062912. |
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What's changing
Jun 2027
Term ends Jun 27, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1101 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
106
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.