Collateral for a security interest recorded May 8, 2013 (Total Gas & Power USA, SAS).

Lapsed Oct 5, 2018 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.

Filed Jul 18, 2008 as application 12/175,465 · Granted Oct 5, 2010

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 228 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Oct 5, 2018

2008 2029

Clock starts
Jul 18, 2008

No longer in force
Oct 5, 2018

Granted
Oct 5, 2010

Term would have run to
Mar 3, 2029

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

228

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.

1 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.

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 3, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 228 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 Jul 18, 2008, when this application, 12/175,465, was filed	Jul 18, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+228 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 3, 2029	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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Oct 5, 2018	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 5, 2018	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,854,774	Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2022	Dec 2022
Application 60/994,790	Pending not computed	not computed
US 7,399,323	In force Oct 2027	Oct 2027
US 7,846,222	In force no later than Apr 2029	no later than Apr 2029
US 7,942,940	In force Mar 2030	Mar 2030
US 7,935,156	In force Feb 2030	Feb 2030
Application 61/049,350	Pending not computed	not computed
US 7,806,944	this patent Oct 2018	Oct 2018

8 of 21 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 21, 2008 Reel 21261, frame 582	Ryder, Jason A.; Fisher, Karl	Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 8, 2013 Reel 30378, frame 447	Amyris, Inc.	Total Gas & Power USA, SAS	Security Agreement
Oct 23, 2013 Reel 31478, frame 933	Amyris, Inc.	Maxwell (Mauritius) Pte Ltd.	Security Agreement
Nov 8, 2013 Reel 31607, frame 314	Amyris, Inc.	Total Energies Nouvelles Activites USA	Security Agreement
Mar 27, 2014 Reel 32551, frame 828	Total Energies Nouvelles Activities USA, SAS (F/K/A Total Gas & Power USA, SAS)	Amyris, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 28, 2014 Reel 32554, frame 1	Total Energies Nouvelles Activites USA, SAS (F/K/A Total Gas & Power USA, SAS)	Amyris, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Mar 31, 2014 Reel 32578, frame 357	Maxwell (Mauritius) Pte Ltd.	Amyris, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Jun 3, 2016 Reel 38878, frame 381	Amyris, Inc.	Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc.	Security Interest
Jun 16, 2016 Reel 39048, frame 251	Hercules Capital Inc.	Stegodon Corporation	Security Interest
Aug 16, 2019 Reel 50081, frame 106	Amyris, Inc.	Naxyris S.A.	Security Interest
Aug 28, 2019 Reel 50206, frame 606	Stegodon Corporation	Amyris, Inc.	Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Note

The 228 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 Oct 5, 2018. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above 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.

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