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Isolated Polypeptides, Polynucleotides Encoding Same, Transgenic Plants Expressing Same and Methods of Using Same

US 8,962,915 Term ended
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Term ended no later than Aug 20, 2026 · Low confidence

Held by Evogene Ltd.
Filed Apr 23, 2008 as application 12/083,978 · Granted Feb 24, 2015
Base term plus 432 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Ended no later than Aug 20, 2026
2005 2026
Clock starts
Jun 14, 2005
Ended no later than
Aug 20, 2026
Granted
Feb 24, 2015
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
432
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 filingClock starts Jun 14, 2005, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Apr 23, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jun 14, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+432 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 20, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Aug 20, 2026Low confidence

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.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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