Term ends Mar 23, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 22, 2031
Held by F. Hoffmann la-Roche AG
Filed Apr 22, 2011 as application 13/092,708 · Granted May 2, 2017
Base term plus 1431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2035
Clock starts
Apr 22, 2011
Apr 22, 2011
Term ends
Mar 23, 2035
Mar 23, 2035
Granted
May 2, 2017
May 2, 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
1,431
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.
6
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 1431 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 Apr 22, 2011, when this application, 13/092,708, was filed | Apr 22, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1431 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 23, 2035 | 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 23, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,637,557 | this patent Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| Application 15/454,968 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/796,530 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/045,539 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/025,980 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/132,131 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2011 Reel 26616, frame 85 | Scheer, Justin; Spiess, Christoph; Yansura, Dan | Genentech, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 17, 2012 Reel 27724, frame 928 | Genentech, Inc. | F. Hoffmann la-Roche AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2035
Term ends Mar 23, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
183
later US patents cite this one
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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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