Term ends Oct 15, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 16, 2034
Held by Genentech, Inc.
Filed Aug 17, 2016 as application 15/239,569 · Granted Apr 7, 2020
Base term plus 456 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014
Term ends
Oct 15, 2035
Oct 15, 2035
Granted
Apr 7, 2020
Apr 7, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
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
456
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,626,174, to Oct 15, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
12
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 456 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Jul 16, 2014, when application 14/333,375, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 17, 2016) | Jul 16, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +456 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 15, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,626,174) | resolves to Oct 15, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 15, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/846,941 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/865,582 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/950,754 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/985,884 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/992,109 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,873,740 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,626,174 | In force Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
| US 10,611,836 | this patent Oct 2035 | Oct 2035 |
8 of 12 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2035
Term ends Oct 15, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 456 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,626,174, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.