Lapsed Jun 7, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 18, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Fluidigm Corporation
Filed Feb 12, 2010 as application 12/705,120 · Granted Jun 7, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 7, 2019
2007
2027
Clock starts
May 18, 2007
May 18, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019
Granted
Jun 7, 2011
Jun 7, 2011
Term would have run to
May 18, 2027
May 18, 2027
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,678,894, to May 18, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
Its term would have run to May 18, 2027: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 18, 2007, when application 11/804,591, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 12, 2010) | May 18, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,678,894) | resolves to May 18, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 7, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 7, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,678,894 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2008/063945 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,163,053 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| US 7,956,171 | this patent Jun 2019 | Jun 2019 |
| Application 14/882,866 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 22, 2010 Reel 25025, frame 387 | Siddiqi, Suhaib | Helicos Biosciences Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 22, 2010 Reel 25388, frame 347 | Helicos Biosciences Corporation | General Electric Capital Corporation | Security Agreement |
| Jan 18, 2012 Reel 27549, frame 565 | General Electric Capital Corporation | Helicos Biosciences Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 28, 2013 Reel 30714, frame 546 | Helicos Biosciences Corporation | Fluidigm Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2013 Reel 30714, frame 598 | Fluidigm Corporation | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. | License |
| Jun 28, 2013 Reel 30714, frame 633 | Fluidigm Corporation | Seqll, LLC | License |
| Jun 28, 2013 Reel 30714, frame 686 | Fluidigm Corporation | Complete Genomics, Inc. | License |
| Jun 28, 2013 Reel 30714, frame 783 | Fluidigm Corporation | Illumina, Inc. | License |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,678,894, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
41
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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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