Lapsed Jul 9, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 10, 2031
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Phoenix Biotechnology, Inc.
Filed Jan 10, 2011 as application 12/987,693 · Granted Jul 9, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 164 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 9, 2025
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 10, 2011
Jan 10, 2011
No longer in force
Jul 9, 2025
Jul 9, 2025
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013
Term would have run to
Jun 23, 2031
Jun 23, 2031
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
164
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 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.
13
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 23, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 164 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 10, 2011, when this application, 12/987,693, was filed | Jan 10, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +164 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 23, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 9, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 9, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,481,086 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2011/020672 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,011,937 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2011/059090 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,358,293 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 9,220,778 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 8,893,965 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| Application 14/658,652 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2011 Reel 25867, frame 25 | Addington, Otis C.; Newman, Robert A. | Phoenix Biotechnology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 164 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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