Term ends Jan 27, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 6, 2027
Held by Tepha, Inc.
Filed Oct 14, 2008 as application 12/251,173 · Granted Mar 17, 2015
Base term plus 1451 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2031
Clock starts
Feb 6, 2007
Feb 6, 2007
Term ends
Jan 27, 2031
Jan 27, 2031
Granted
Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 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
1,451
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.
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 1451 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 Feb 6, 2007, when application 11/671,632, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 14, 2008) | Feb 6, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1451 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 27, 2031 | 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 | Jan 27, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,618,448 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 9,592,325 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 8,979,921 | this patent Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2009/051024 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,961,591 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2009 Reel 22422, frame 422 | Schmitz, Klaus-peter; Behrend, Detlef; Sternberg, Katrin; Grabow, Niels; Martin, David P.; Williams, Simon F. | Tepha, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2010 Reel 24599, frame 544 | Tepha, Inc. | General Electric Capital Corporation | Security Agreement |
| Sep 28, 2017 Reel 43731, frame 714 | General Electric Capital Corporation | Tepha, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 23, 2020 Reel 54224, frame 693 | Tepha, Inc. | Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 5, 2023 Reel 65156, frame 223 | Innovatus Life Sciences Lending Fund I, LP | Tepha, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2031
Term ends Jan 27, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1451 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
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.
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.