Lapsed May 25, 2022 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 1, 2025
Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
Filed Oct 12, 2006 as application 10/588,985 · Granted May 25, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 739 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 25, 2022
2005
2027
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2005
Mar 1, 2005
No longer in force
May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022
Granted
May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010
Term would have run to
Mar 10, 2027
Mar 10, 2027
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
739
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 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.
44
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Mar 10, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 739 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Mar 1, 2005, when application PCT/EP2005/003282, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 12, 2006) | Mar 1, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +739 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 10, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 25, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 25, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,723,363 | this patent May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,670,990 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,687,067 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,790,901 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 7,777,045 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,122,760 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| US 7,888,289 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019 | Feb 2019 |
| US 7,825,068 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2018 | Nov 2018 |
8 of 44 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 31, 2010 Reel 24172, frame 881 | Mansfield, Darren James; Rieck, Heiko; Coqueron, Pierre-yves; Desbordes, Philippe; Grosjean-cournoyer, Marie-claire; Genix, Pierre; Villier, Alain | Bayer CropScience S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 20, 2010 Reel 25161, frame 521 | Bayer CropScience S.A. | Bayer CropScience AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2016 Reel 37689, frame 656 | Bayer CropScience AG | Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 739 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than May 25, 2022. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.