Term ends Sep 1, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 16, 2030
Held by Corteva Agriscience LLC
Filed Aug 30, 2012 as application 13/516,611 · Granted Feb 14, 2017
Base term plus 778 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2032
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2010
Dec 16, 2010
Term ends
Sep 1, 2032
Sep 1, 2032
Granted
Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017
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
778
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,556,453, US 9,796,982.
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.
18
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 778 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 16, 2010, when application PCT/US2010/060817, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 30, 2012) | Dec 16, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +778 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 1, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,556,453, US 9,796,982) | capped to Sep 1, 2032 | 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 | Sep 1, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/284,275 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/284,278 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/284,281 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/284,289 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/284,290 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/284,292 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2010/060826 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2010/060808 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2021 Reel 58044, frame 184 | Dow AgroSciences LLC | Corteva Agriscience LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 1, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 778 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,556,453, US 9,796,982.
Citations
34
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2017 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.