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US 9,134,203 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 15, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 26, 2012 as application 13/727,416 · Granted Sep 15, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 220 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 15, 2019
2012 2033
Clock starts
Dec 26, 2012
No longer in force
Sep 15, 2019
Granted
Sep 15, 2015
Term would have run to
Aug 3, 2033
base term patent term adjustment 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
220
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
30
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 Aug 3, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 220 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 26, 2012, when this application, 13/727,416, was filedDec 26, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+220 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 3, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 15, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 15, 2019High confidence

This family

US 10,867,274In force
Apr 2035
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Application PCT/US2012/069434PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,134,203this patent
Sep 2019
Sep 2019
Application PCT/US2012/071850PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,993,820In force
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
US 9,632,103Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
US 9,513,303Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
Application 14/214,210Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 30 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 1, 2013
Reel 29742, frame 748
Smith, Bradley; Benson, SarahAbbott LaboratoriesAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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