Lapsed Sep 15, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 21, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Otonomy, Inc.
Filed Apr 21, 2009 as application 12/427,663 · Granted Sep 15, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 459 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 15, 2023
2009
2030
Clock starts
Apr 21, 2009
Apr 21, 2009
No longer in force
Sep 15, 2023
Sep 15, 2023
Granted
Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015
Term would have run to
Jul 24, 2030
Jul 24, 2030
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
459
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
27
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 Jul 24, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 459 days of term adjustment for 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 Apr 21, 2009, when this application, 12/427,663, was filed | Apr 21, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +459 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 24, 2030 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 15, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 15, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,132,087 | this patent Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 8,030,297 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,318,817 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2009/051172 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,546,363 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,828,980 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| US 8,658,626 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 8,680,082 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
8 of 27 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2009 Reel 22950, frame 358 | Harris, Jeffrey P. | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 14, 2009 Reel 22950, frame 393 | Lichter, Jay; Vollrath, Benedikt; Duron, Sergio G.; Piu, Fabrice; Dellamary, Luis A.; Ye, Qiang; Lebel, Carl; Trammel, Andrew M. | Otonomy, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 15, 2009 Reel 22958, frame 276 | Scaife, Michael Christopher | Otonomy, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 459 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
106
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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