Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 14, 2022 (Vickers Venture Fund VI Pte. Ltd.).
Term ends Aug 9, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 13, 2033
Held by Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc.
Filed Sep 6, 2013 as application 14/019,940 · Granted Mar 4, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013
Term ends
Aug 9, 2030
Aug 9, 2030
Granted
Mar 4, 2014
Mar 4, 2014
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,673,936, US 8,703,794.
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.
10
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 13, 2013, when application 13/800,963, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 6, 2013) | Mar 13, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,673,936, US 8,703,794) | capped to Aug 9, 2030 | 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 | Aug 9, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,673,936 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 8,664,241 | this patent Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 8,987,298 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 9,199,991 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 9,994,563 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 10,407,425 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 10,947,228 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 11,697,649 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2013 Reel 31403, frame 124 | Hood, John; Wallace, David Mark; Kc, Sunil Kumar | Samumed, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2021 Reel 55375, frame 764 | Hood, John; Wallace, David Mark; Kumar Kc, Sunil | Samumed, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2021 Reel 55693, frame 882 | Samumed, LLC | Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 14, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc. | Vickers Venture Fund VI Pte. Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Sep 14, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc. | Vickers Venture Fund VI (Plan) Pte. Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Sep 14, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc. | Vickers-Splice Co.-Investment LLC | Security Interest |
| Sep 14, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc. | Med-Pathways II Limited | Security Interest |
| Sep 14, 2022 Reel 61433, frame 786 | Biosplice Therapeutics, Inc. | Vickers Venture Fund VI Pte. Ltd.; Vickers Venture Fund VI (Plan) Pte. Ltd.; Vickers-Splice Co.-Investment LLC; Med-Pathways II Limited | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2030
Term ends Aug 9, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,673,936, US 8,703,794.
Citations
88
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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