Term ended Feb 25, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 10, 2024
Held by Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
Filed Mar 27, 2005 as application 11/091,614 · Granted May 10, 2011
Base term plus 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 25, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Sep 10, 2004
Sep 10, 2004
Term ended
Feb 25, 2026
Feb 25, 2026
Granted
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011
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
533
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.
15
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 533 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 Sep 10, 2004, when application 10/938,314, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 27, 2005) | Sep 10, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +533 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 25, 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 | Feb 25, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/938,314 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/966,071 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2005/003311 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,979,212 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2005/003272 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,941,275 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2005/010332 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2005/017481 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 15 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 27, 2005 Reel 17040, frame 428 | Gholap, Gauri; Gholap, Abhijeet S.; Rao, C.v.k.; Barsky, Sanford, H., M.D.; Vipra, Madhura; Kamble, Gurunath; Patil, Suhas; Jadhav, Prithviraj | Bioimagene, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 24, 2011 Reel 26012, frame 348 | Bioimagene, Inc. | Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
64
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2011 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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