Term ends Feb 20, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 20, 2028
Held by Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.
Filed Feb 20, 2008 as application 12/034,488 · Granted Jul 17, 2012
Base term plus 1070 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Feb 20, 2008
Feb 20, 2008
Term ends
Feb 20, 2028
Feb 20, 2028
Granted
Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012
base term
fee events
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
1,070
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,658,918.
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.
28
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 1070 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 20, 2008, when this application, 12/034,488, was filed | Feb 20, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1070 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 25, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,658,918) | capped to Feb 20, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 20, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,604,222 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,246,950 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,221,747 | this patent Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,293,229 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 7,541,384 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 10,087,493 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 8,217,083 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,784,884 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 2009 Reel 23686, frame 277 | Ortenzi, Giovanni; Marconi, Marco; Mapelli, Luigi | Eurand Pharmaceuticals Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2011 Reel 27027, frame 641 | Eurand Pharmaceuticals Limited | Aptalis Pharma Limited | Change of Name |
| Mar 18, 2016 Reel 38177, frame 967 | Aptalis Pharma Limited | Allergan Pharmaceuticals International Limited | Change of Name |
| Apr 30, 2020 Reel 52538, frame 196 | Allergan Pharmaceuticals International Limited | Allergan Therapeutics LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 9, 2020 Reel 53164, frame 711 | Allergan Therapeutics LLC | Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2028
Term ends Feb 20, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1070 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,658,918.
Citations
69
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.
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