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Recombinant Vectors

US 8,829,173 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 9, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 26, 2011 as application 13/072,704 · Granted Sep 9, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 9, 2018
2009 2030
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2009
No longer in force
Sep 9, 2018
Granted
Sep 9, 2014
Term would have run to
Jan 10, 2030
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
106
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
5
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 Jan 10, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 106 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 26, 2009, when application PCT/US2009/058512, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 26, 2011)Sep 26, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+106 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 10, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 9, 2018High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 9, 2018High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2009/058512PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,829,173this patent
Sep 2018
Sep 2018
US 9,732,326Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
US 10,407,666In force
Sep 2029
Sep 2029
Application 16/560,525Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Nov 18, 2011
Reel 27252, frame 773
Gruber, Harry E.; Jolly, Douglas J.; Perez, Omar D.; Logg, Christopher R.Tocagen, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 4, 2019
Reel 50909, frame 548
Tocagen Inc.Oxford Finance LLC, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Apr 23, 2020
Reel 52482, frame 439
Oxford Finance LLCTocagen, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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