Term ends Oct 19, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 16, 2027
Held by Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC
Filed Aug 10, 2009 as application 12/441,466 · Granted Apr 10, 2012
Base term plus 234 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2032
Clock starts
Oct 16, 2007
Oct 16, 2007
Term ends
Oct 19, 2032
Oct 19, 2032
Granted
Apr 10, 2012
Apr 10, 2012
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
234
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.
24
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 234 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 Oct 16, 2007, when application PCT/IB2007/004172, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 10, 2009) | Oct 16, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +234 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 6, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | +1596 days, USPTO 35 U.S.C. 156 certificate | added to Jun 6, 2028: Oct 19, 2032 | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 19, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/830,293 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/830,304 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/830,325 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,786,104 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| Application 12/469,215 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/480,050 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/480,052 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,153,765 | this patent Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2009 Reel 23113, frame 246 | Park, Peter U.; Bartle, Laura M.; Skaletskaya, Anna; Golmakher, Viktor; Tavares, Daniel; Deckert, Jutta; Mikol, Vincent; Blanc, Veronique | Sanofi-Aventis | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 20, 2012 Reel 28413, frame 927 | Sanofi-Aventis | Sanofi | Change of Name |
| Jul 20, 2022 Reel 60757, frame 518 | Sanofi | Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 3, 2024 Reel 68105, frame 767 | Sanofi | Sanofi | Change of Address |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2032
Term ends Oct 19, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 234 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.