Term ended Jun 30, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 30, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Life Technologies Corporation
Filed Feb 1, 2012 as application 13/364,226 · Granted Sep 29, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jun 30, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2006
Jun 30, 2006
Term ended
Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
Granted
Sep 29, 2015
Sep 29, 2015
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
5
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. Confidence: Medium. 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 30, 2006, when applications 11/479,962 and 11/480,287, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Feb 1, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 30, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,663,750 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,817,273 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
| US 9,146,194 | this patent Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,488,571 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
4 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2012 Reel 28051, frame 661 | Bahatt, Dar; Patel, Chirag; Tan, Roy; Prothro, Derek | Life Technologies Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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