Term ends Jul 31, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 13, 2028
Held by Bioprotect Ltd.
Filed Nov 12, 2009 as application 12/599,823 · Granted Jul 9, 2013
Base term plus 809 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
May 13, 2008
May 13, 2008
Term ends
Jul 31, 2030
Jul 31, 2030
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013
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
809
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.
2
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 809 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 May 13, 2008, when application PCT/IL2008/000662, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 12, 2009) | May 13, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +809 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 31, 2030 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 31, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,480,647 | this patent Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2010 Reel 24009, frame 917 | Shohat, Shaul; Machlev, Eli; Haimovich, Dana; Domb, Abraham Jackob | Bioprotect Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 6, 2022 Reel 61667, frame 401 | Bioprotect Ltd. | Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSP | Security Interest |
| Jan 15, 2025 Reel 69924, frame 697 | Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSP | Bioprotect Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2026 Reel 74078, frame 880 | Bioprotect Ltd. | Kreos Capital VIII Aggregator SCSP | Security Interest |
| Jul 7, 2026 Reel 75198, frame 639 | Kreos Capital VIII Aggregator SCSP | Bioprotect Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2030
Term ends Jul 31, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 809 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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