Term ends Mar 19, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 12, 2033
Held by Plant Bioscience Limited
Filed Sep 12, 2013 as application 14/025,737 · Granted Feb 14, 2017
Base term plus 188 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Sep 12, 2013
Sep 12, 2013
Term ends
Mar 19, 2034
Mar 19, 2034
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
188
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.
4
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 188 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 Sep 12, 2013, when this application, 14/025,737, was filed | Sep 12, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +188 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 19, 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 | Mar 19, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,567,650 | this patent Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,472,685 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 11,685,959 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| Application 18/309,398 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Mar 2034
Term ends Mar 19, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 188 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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