Term ends Apr 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 23, 2031
Held by Irm LLC
Filed Jul 9, 2014 as application 14/326,957 · Granted Jun 14, 2016
Base term plus 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 23, 2011
Mar 23, 2011
Term ends
Apr 11, 2031
Apr 11, 2031
Granted
Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 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
19
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.
3
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 19 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 23, 2011, when application PCT/US2011/029661, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 9, 2014) | Mar 23, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +19 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 11, 2031 | 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 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2011/029661 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,808,703 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 9,365,506 | this patent Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
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 |
| May 6, 2016 Reel 38489, frame 901 | Wu, Tom Yao-hsiang; Zou, Yefen; Hoffman, Timothy Z.; Pan, Jianfeng | Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2016 Reel 38490, frame 189 | 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
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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 2031
Term ends Apr 11, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.