Also listed on Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 27, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 17, 2023
Held by Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
Filed Oct 20, 2008 as application 12/254,515 · Granted Mar 4, 2014
Base term plus 1137 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2026
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2003
Oct 17, 2003
Term ends
Nov 27, 2026
Nov 27, 2026
Granted
Mar 4, 2014
Mar 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
1,137
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.
139
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 1137 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 Oct 17, 2003, when application 10/687,958, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 20, 2008) | Oct 17, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1137 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 27, 2026 | 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 27, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,623,697 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2011 | Sep 2011 |
| US 6,767,440 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 6,706,000 | Term ended no later than Mar 2020 | no later than Mar 2020 |
| US 6,866,675 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 6,878,120 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2009 | Apr 2009 |
| Application 60/370,683 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 6,818,416 | Term ended Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 |
| US 6,858,015 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
8 of 139 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 12, 2009 Reel 22088, frame 160 | Burke, David W.; Surridge, Nigel; Groll, Henning | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 12, 2009 Reel 22088, frame 299 | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Corange International Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 30, 2009 Reel 22184, frame 597 | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Corange International Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignment of Assignor's Interest Previously Recorded on Reel 022088 Frame 0299. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment to Corange International Limited of an Undivided One-Half Interest.. |
| May 5, 2009 Reel 22634, frame 371 | Corange International Limited | Roche Operations Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Jun 23, 2015 Reel 36008, frame 670 | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 24, 2024 Reel 67204, frame 694 | Roche Operations Ltd. | Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 27, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1137 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
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