Also listed on Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics Inc Dba the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Apr 24, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 7, 2034
Held by Irm LLC.
Filed Mar 7, 2014 as application 14/201,694 · Granted Apr 5, 2016
Base term plus 48 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Mar 7, 2014
Mar 7, 2014
Term ends
Apr 24, 2034
Apr 24, 2034
Granted
Apr 5, 2016
Apr 5, 2016
base term
patent term adjustment
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
48
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 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.
13
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 48 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Mar 7, 2014, when this application, 14/201,694, was filed | Mar 7, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +48 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 24, 2034 | 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 | Apr 24, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,301,971 | this patent Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/022102 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,649,359 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,868,771 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,745,358 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,328,126 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,239,927 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,533,042 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
8 of 13 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, 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 |
| Feb 28, 2017 Reel 41400, frame 883 | Johnson, Kristen; Shi, Jian | Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2017 Reel 41400, frame 832 | Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, Inc. | Irm LLC. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2017 Reel 41400, frame 939 | Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, Inc. | Irm LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Apr 2034
Term ends Apr 24, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 48 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
20
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.