Lapsed May 23, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 23, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm)
Filed Nov 10, 2009 as application 12/160,605 · Granted May 23, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 23, 2021
2006
2030
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2006
Feb 23, 2006
No longer in force
May 23, 2021
May 23, 2021
Granted
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 3, 2030
Aug 3, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,622
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
20
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 Aug 3, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1622 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Feb 23, 2006, when application PCT/EP2006/002577, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 10, 2009) | Feb 23, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1622 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 3, 2030 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 23, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 23, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/994,204 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,158,413 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,017,571 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Application 11/596,675 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,735,565 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,222,029 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 9,657,074 | this patent May 2021 | May 2021 |
| Application 12/731,196 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 20 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 16, 2009 Reel 23520, frame 438 | Bay, Sylvie; Freire, Teresa; Leclerc, Claude; Lo-man, Richard | Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Bay, Sylvie; Leclerc, Claude; Lo-man, Richard; Freire, Teresa | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Bay, Sylvie; Leclerc, Claude; Lo-man, Richard; Freire, Teresa | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Bay, Sylvie; Leclerc, Claude; Lo-man, Richard; Freire, Teresa | Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 1622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
10
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.
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