Term ended May 2, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 19, 2025
Filed Sep 17, 2007 as application 11/793,501 · Granted Aug 17, 2010
Base term plus 134 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 2, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 19, 2005
Dec 19, 2005
Term ended
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
Granted
Aug 17, 2010
Aug 17, 2010
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
134
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.
44
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 134 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 19, 2005, when application PCT/EP2005/056900, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 17, 2007) | Dec 19, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +134 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 2, 2026 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 2, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,723,363 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2007 Reel 19941, frame 543 | Lhermitte, Frederic; Perrin-janet, Gilles; Dufour, Paul; Coqueron, Pierre-yves | 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 |
| Jun 12, 2023 Reel 64021, frame 344 | Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH | Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH | Change of Address |
| Jul 4, 2023 Reel 64198, frame 823 | Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH | Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
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Note
The 134 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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.
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