Term ends Aug 29, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 29, 2032
Held by Novartis AG
Filed Apr 22, 2014 as application 14/258,963 · Granted May 5, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Aug 29, 2012
Aug 29, 2012
Term ends
Aug 29, 2032
Aug 29, 2032
Granted
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
3
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 29, 2012, when application 13/598,213, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 22, 2014) | Aug 29, 2032 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Aug 29, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,569,283 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 8,754,071 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,023,839 | this patent Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2015 Reel 34676, frame 561 | Petrassi, Hank Michael James; Liu, Xiaodong; Loren, Jon; Molteni, Valentina; Nabakka, Juliet; Nguyen, Bao; Yeh, Vince; Li, Xiaolin | Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2015 Reel 34692, frame 709 | Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, Dba the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation | Irm LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2015 Reel 35444, frame 397 | Irm LLC | Novartis International Pharmaceutical Ltd. | Merger |
| Apr 16, 2015 Reel 35453, frame 224 | Novartis International Pharmaceutical Ltd. | Novartis AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2032
Term ends Aug 29, 2032.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
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