Term ends Dec 3, 2034 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 3, 2034
Grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Held by Hookipa Biotech GmbH
Filed Jun 2, 2016 as application 15/101,363 · Granted Oct 30, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014
Term ends
Dec 3, 2034
Dec 3, 2034
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 2018
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
23
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. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its second maintenance fee ended Oct 30, 2026 with no payment on record. from the record
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 3, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/076466, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 2, 2016) | Dec 3, 2034 | 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 | The grace period ended with no payment on record in the fee file | grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 3, 2034 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,111,945 | this patent Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 10,669,315 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 11,214,598 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 11,266,727 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,554,169 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| Application 16/302,086 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/347,501 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/500,648 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 23 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 29, 2016 Reel 40456, frame 277 | Orlinger, Klaus; Lingnau, Karen; Monath, Thomas; Guirakhoo, Farshad; Fuhrmann, Gerhard; Cohen, Katherine; Baumgartl-strasser, Vera; Aspöck, Andreas; Kainer, Manuela; Brim, Bernhard; Kiefmann, Bettina; Watson, Elizabeth; Aistleithner, Mario; Bayer, Katharina; Mühlbacher, Elsa | Hookipa Biotech AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2018 Reel 46804, frame 980 | Hookipa Biotech AG | Hookipa Research GmbH | Merger |
| Sep 6, 2018 Reel 47029, frame 660 | Hookipa Research GmbH | Hookipa Biotech GmbH | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Oct 30
Grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
Dec 2034
Term ends Dec 3, 2034.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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