Term ended Sep 20, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 18, 2025
Held by Institut Pasteur
Filed Jan 19, 2007 as application 10/593,071 · Granted Sep 13, 2011
Base term plus 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 20, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 18, 2005
Mar 18, 2005
Term ended
Sep 20, 2026
Sep 20, 2026
Granted
Sep 13, 2011
Sep 13, 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
551
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.
20
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 551 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 Mar 18, 2005, when application PCT/IB2005/000700, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 19, 2007) | Mar 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +551 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 20, 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 | Sep 20, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/994,204 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,158,413 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,017,571 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Application 11/596,675 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,735,565 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,222,029 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 9,657,074 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2021 | May 2021 |
| Application 12/731,196 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2008 Reel 21177, frame 885 | Rougeot, Catherine; Ungeheuer, Marie-noelle; Wisner, Anne; Dufour, Evelyne; Huaulme, Jean-francois | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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