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Targeted Cryptosporidium Biocides

US 8,394,379 Term ended
OverviewSources & methods

Term ended Feb 21, 2025 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Apr 14, 2025.

Held by Iogenetics, LLC
Filed Jan 13, 2010 as application 12/686,879 · Granted Mar 12, 2013
Base term plus 284 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Feb 21, 2025
2004 2026
Clock starts
May 13, 2004
Term ended
Feb 21, 2025
Granted
Mar 12, 2013
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
284
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 filingClock starts May 13, 2004, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jan 13, 2010); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)May 13, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+284 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 21, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Apr 14, 2025, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 21, 2025Medium confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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