Lapsed Apr 14, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 4, 2030
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Dow AgroSciences LLC
Filed Nov 14, 2012 as application 13/676,746 · Granted Apr 14, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Apr 14, 2019
2010
2030
Clock starts
May 4, 2010
May 4, 2010
No longer in force
Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019
Granted
Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015
Term would have run to
May 4, 2030
May 4, 2030
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,350,044, to May 4, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
7
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 May 4, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 4, 2010, when application 12/773,062, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 14, 2012) | May 4, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,350,044) | resolves to May 4, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 14, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 14, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/175,659 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,350,044 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2010/033467 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,006,446 | this patent Apr 2019 | Apr 2019 |
| US 8,853,246 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 9,357,780 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application 14/521,542 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,350,044, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
10
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.