Lapsed Sep 19, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 29, 2029
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by L'Oreal S.A.
Filed May 29, 2009 as application 12/474,426 · Granted Sep 19, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1317 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 19, 2021
2009
2033
Clock starts
May 29, 2009
May 29, 2009
No longer in force
Sep 19, 2021
Sep 19, 2021
Granted
Sep 19, 2017
Sep 19, 2017
Term would have run to
Jan 5, 2033
Jan 5, 2033
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
1,317
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.
16
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 Jan 5, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 1317 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 May 29, 2009, when this application, 12/474,426, was filed | May 29, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1317 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 5, 2033 | 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 Sep 19, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 19, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/531,488 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,786,626 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,641,702 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| Application 12/048,139 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US D634,268 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US D634,707 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US D663,893 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 9,763,508 | this patent Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2009 Reel 23083, frame 722 | Reishus, Richard A; Itano, Michael M; Pilcher, Kenneth A | Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2014 Reel 32892, frame 140 | Pacific Bioscience Laboratories, Inc. | L'Oreal S.A. | Purchase Agreement |
Sources
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Note
The 1317 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.
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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