Lapsed Oct 21, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Held by Bromine Compounds Ltd.

Filed Jul 8, 2009 as application 12/227,371 · Granted Oct 21, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 578 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Oct 21, 2026

2007 2028

Clock starts
May 14, 2007

No longer in force
Oct 21, 2026

Granted
Oct 21, 2014

Term would have run to
Dec 12, 2028

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

578

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.

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 Dec 12, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 578 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 May 14, 2007, when application PCT/IL2007/000589, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2009)	May 14, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+578 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Dec 12, 2028	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	No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"	lapsed Oct 21, 2026	Low confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 21, 2026	Low confidence

This family

US 8,865,783	this patent Oct 2026	Oct 2026
US 9,631,144	In force no later than May 2027	no later than May 2027

2 of 3 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
Jul 8, 2009 Reel 22927, frame 913	Gelmont, Mark; Peled, Michael; Alon, Dina; Frim, Ron; Bar-yaakov, Yoav	Bromine Compounds Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Note

The 578 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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