Term ends Jan 31, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 31, 2033
Filed Dec 22, 2015 as application 14/977,680 · Granted Apr 3, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Jan 31, 2013
Jan 31, 2013
Term ends
Jan 31, 2033
Jan 31, 2033
Granted
Apr 3, 2018
Apr 3, 2018
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
7
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Jan 31, 2013, when application 13/754,969, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 22, 2015) | Jan 31, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Jan 31, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,233,100 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 9,259,417 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 9,931,320 | this patent Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| Application 15/009,996 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/904,798 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,596,156 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| Application 16/788,750 | Abandoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2016 Reel 38312, frame 952 | Soll, Mark David; Larsen, Diane; Cady, Susan Mancini; Cheifetz, Peter; Galeska, Izabela; Gong, Saijun | Merial Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 19, 2016 Reel 38463, frame 418 | Merial Limited | Merial, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 2, 2020 Reel 51459, frame 819 | Merial, Inc. | Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2033
Term ends Jan 31, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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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.