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Rationally-Designed Single-Chain Meganucleases with Non-Palindromic Recognition Sequences

US 8,445,251 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Dec 24, 2028 · Medium confidence

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

Filed Apr 30, 2010 as application 12/771,163 · Granted May 21, 2013
Base term plus 54 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2008
Term ends
Dec 24, 2028
Granted
May 21, 2013
base term patent term adjustment 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
54
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.
11
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 54 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 31, 2008, when application PCT/US2008/082072, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 30, 2010); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Oct 31, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+54 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 24, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 24, 2028Medium confidence

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Application PCT/US2008/082072PCT application
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US 8,445,251this patent
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Application 13/897,923Abandoned
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Application 14/723,840Abandoned
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US 9,434,931In force
Oct 2028
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US 9,340,777In force
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US 10,041,053In force
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Application 16/025,747Abandoned
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8 of 11 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 30, 2011
Reel 26532, frame 852
Smith, James J.; Jantz, DerekPrecision Biosciences, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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