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Polypeptides and Polynucleotides, and Uses Thereof as a Drug Target for Producing Drugs and Biologics

US 9,555,087 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 31, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Aug 26, 2014 as application 14/469,546 · Granted Jan 31, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 177 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 31, 2025
2008 2029
Clock starts
Sep 3, 2008
No longer in force
Jan 31, 2025
Granted
Jan 31, 2017
Term would have run to
Feb 27, 2029
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
177
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,415,455, to Feb 27, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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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.
8
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 Feb 27, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 177 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Sep 3, 2008, when application PCT/US2008/075122, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 26, 2014)Sep 3, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+177 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 27, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,415,455)resolves to Feb 27, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 31, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 31, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,415,455Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,107,862Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,098,934Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2026
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US 9,375,466Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2020
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US 9,555,087this patent
Jan 2025
Jan 2025
Application 15/011,521Abandoned
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Application 15/882,240Abandoned
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7 of 8 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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