Term ends Jul 12, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 5, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Intermolecular, Inc.
Filed Nov 13, 2012 as application 13/675,695 · Granted Nov 18, 2014
Base term plus 129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Mar 5, 2007
Mar 5, 2007
Term ends
Jul 12, 2027
Jul 12, 2027
Granted
Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 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
129
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,629,198, to Jul 12, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
5
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 129 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 5, 2007, when application 11/714,326, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 13, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 5, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +129 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 12, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,629,198) | resolves to Jul 12, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 12, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,097,878 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,629,198 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2008/052082 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,889,479 | this patent Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
4 of 5 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2027
Term ends Jul 12, 2027.
Note
The 129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,629,198, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.