Term ended Nov 7, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 16, 2024
Held by Corteva Agriscience LLC
Filed Jun 15, 2012 as application 13/523,950 · Granted Jul 7, 2015
Base term plus 144 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 7, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jun 16, 2004
Jun 16, 2004
Term ended
Nov 7, 2024
Nov 7, 2024
Granted
Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 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
144
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
4
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 144 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jun 16, 2004, when application 10/868,990, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 15, 2012) | Jun 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +144 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 7, 2024 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 7, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,279,615 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,842,851 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,222,484 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 9,074,007 | this patent Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Ananiev, Evgueni; Danilevskaya, Olga; Aukerman, Milo J.; Hermon, Pedro; Muszynski, Michael G.; Shirbroun, David Mark | Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 11, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Ananiev, Evgueni; Danilevskaya, Olga; Aukerman, Milo J.; Hermon, Pedro; Muszynski, Michael G.; Shirbroun, David Mark | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 11, 2015 Reel 35606, frame 314 | Danilevskaya, Olga; Hermon, Pedro; Ananiev, Evgueni; Shirbroun, David Mark; Muszynski, Michael G.; Aukerman, Milo J. | Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc.; E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 29, 2022 Reel 63141, frame 155 | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | Corteva Agriscience LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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Note
The 144 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
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