Term ends Nov 15, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 4, 2028
Held by L'Oreal S.A.
Filed Jan 4, 2008 as application 11/969,447 · Granted Feb 4, 2014
Base term plus 1046 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
Jan 4, 2008
Jan 4, 2008
Term ends
Nov 15, 2030
Nov 15, 2030
Granted
Feb 4, 2014
Feb 4, 2014
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
1,046
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.
16
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 1046 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 Jan 4, 2008, when this application, 11/969,447, was filed | Jan 4, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1046 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 15, 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 | Nov 15, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/531,488 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,786,626 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,641,702 | this patent Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| Application 12/048,139 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US D634,268 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US D634,707 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US D663,893 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 9,763,508 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2008 Reel 20321, frame 866 | Pilcher, Kenneth A.; Akridge, Robert E. | Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2014 Reel 32892, frame 140 | Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. | L'Oreal S.A. | Purchase Agreement |
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What's changing
Nov 2030
Term ends Nov 15, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1046 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
46
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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