Term ended May 24, 2021 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 12, 2018
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Dec 12, 2022.
Held by Immunomedics, Inc.
Filed Nov 12, 2003 as application 10/706,852 · Granted Nov 9, 2010
Base term plus 1169 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 24, 2021
1998
2026
Clock starts
Mar 12, 1998
Mar 12, 1998
Term ended
May 24, 2021
May 24, 2021
Granted
Nov 9, 2010
Nov 9, 2010
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
1,169
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
331
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 1169 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 12, 1998, when application 09/038,955, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 12, 2003); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 12, 2018 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1169 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 24, 2021 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Dec 12, 2022, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 24, 2021 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 09/921,290 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,910,103 | Term ended Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| Application 10/350,096 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,312,318 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,238,785 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 |
| US 7,282,567 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 7,829,064 | this patent May 2021 | May 2021 |
| US 7,585,491 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
8 of 331 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2004 Reel 15528, frame 1 | Griffiths, Gary L.; Hansen, Hans J.; Goldenberg, David M.; Lundberg, Bo B. | Immunomedics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 1169 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
53
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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