Term ends Jun 7, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 27, 2031
Held by Shire Viropharma LLC
Filed Oct 27, 2011 as application 13/282,501 · Granted Jan 27, 2015
Base term plus 224 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Oct 27, 2011
Oct 27, 2011
Term ends
Jun 7, 2032
Jun 7, 2032
Granted
Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015
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
224
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.
12
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 224 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 27, 2011, when this application, 13/282,501, was filed | Oct 27, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +224 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 7, 2032 | 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 | Jun 7, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,940,707 | this patent Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| Application 14/595,548 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/055,043 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,485,813 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 10,765,692 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 11,684,632 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| Application 18/200,636 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/594,712 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 2011 Reel 27290, frame 716 | Peabody, John D., III | Viropharma Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 8, 2015 Reel 36075, frame 970 | Viropharma Incorporated | Shire Viropharma Incorporated | Change of Name |
| May 20, 2021 Reel 56307, frame 254 | Shire Viropharma LLC | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 15, 2021 Reel 56596, frame 380 | Shire Viropharma Incorporated | Shire Viropharma LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2032
Term ends Jun 7, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 224 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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