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Polynucleotides and Polypeptide Sequences Involved in the Process of Bone Remodeling

US 7,947,436 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 24, 2015 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 25, 2008 as application 11/792,932 · Granted May 24, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 187 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 24, 2015
2005 2026
Clock starts
Dec 13, 2005
No longer in force
May 24, 2015
Granted
May 24, 2011
Term would have run to
Jun 18, 2026
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
187
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
38
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 Jun 18, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 187 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 13, 2005, when application PCT/CA2005/001917, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 25, 2008)Dec 13, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+187 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 18, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 24, 2015High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 24, 2015High confidence

This family

Application 19/598,121Pending
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US 7,947,436this patent
May 2015
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US 8,044,179Term ended
Nov 2026
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US 8,216,582In force
Aug 2028
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US 8,426,562Term ended
Nov 2026
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Application 13/082,107Abandoned
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US 9,855,291Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2026
Jan 2026
US 8,580,257Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2025
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8 of 38 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 15, 2008
Reel 20520, frame 806
Sooknanan, Roy Rabindranauth; Tremblay, Gilles Bernard; Filion, MarioAlethia Biotherapeutics Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 13, 2008
Reel 21827, frame 245
Alethia Biotherapeutics, Inc.Alethia Biotherapeutics, Inc.Change of Address of Assignee

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