Term ends no later than May 9, 2027 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 14, 2023
In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.
Filed Mar 30, 2005 as application 11/095,383 · Granted Nov 16, 2010
Base term plus 1272 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2027
Clock starts
Nov 14, 2003
Nov 14, 2003
Ends no later than
May 9, 2027
May 9, 2027
Granted
Nov 16, 2010
Nov 16, 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
1,272
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.
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.
168
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 1272 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Low. 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 Nov 14, 2003, when applications 10/714,333 and PCT/US2003/036787, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Mar 30, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 14, 2023 | 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 | +1272 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 9, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than May 9, 2027 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,090,542 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2004/014885 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 10/940,892 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,820,809 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Application 11/093,832 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,834,170 | this patent no later than May 2027 | no later than May 2027 |
| US 7,691,997 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 7,615,541 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2021 | Nov 2021 |
8 of 168 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2014 Reel 32720, frame 846 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Biosciences Inc. | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 30, 2014 Reel 32789, frame 763 | Dharmacon, Inc. | Thermo Fisher Scientific Biosciences Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 5, 2014 Reel 32821, frame 265 | Khvorova, Anastasia; Reynolds, Angela; Leake, Devin; Marshall, William; Scaringe, Stephen | Dharmacon, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2027
Term ends no later than May 9, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 1272 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 9, 2027. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
134
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.