Term ends Sep 16, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 7, 2025
Held by Abbott Laboratories
Filed Oct 5, 2006 as application 10/599,695 · Granted Dec 14, 2010
Base term plus 892 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Apr 7, 2005
Apr 7, 2005
Term ends
Sep 16, 2027
Sep 16, 2027
Granted
Dec 14, 2010
Dec 14, 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
892
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.
5
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 892 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Apr 7, 2005, when application PCT/US2005/011602, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 5, 2006) | Apr 7, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +892 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 16, 2027 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,850,916 | this patent Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 9,084,995 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 8,241,572 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 10,578,602 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
4 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2006 Reel 18544, frame 660 | Wardlaw, Stephen C. | Wardlaw Partners LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2006 Reel 18556, frame 131 | Wardlaw, Stephen C. | Levine, Robert A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 12, 2009 Reel 23079, frame 815 | QDX, Inc. | Abbott Laboratories | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2027
Term ends Sep 16, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 892 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
102
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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
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