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Method, System, and Apparatus for Pharmaceutical Container Filing and Lyophilizing

US 10,781,003 In force
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Term ends May 30, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Jun 2, 2016 as application 15/171,015 · Granted Sep 22, 2020
Base term plus 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Aug 15, 2014
Term ends
May 30, 2035
Granted
Sep 22, 2020
base term patent term adjustment 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
288
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
42
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 288 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 15, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/051223, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 2, 2016)Aug 15, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+288 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 30, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 30, 2035High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2013/039455PCT application
no patent term
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Application PCT/US2014/051223PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,081,527In force
Apr 2034
Apr 2034
US 10,781,002In force
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
US 10,781,003this patent
May 2035
May 2035
US 9,993,815In force
Jun 2033
Jun 2033
Application 15/264,554Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,067,151In force
Dec 2036
Dec 2036
8 of 42 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 21, 2017
Reel 42774, frame 106
Broadbent, Nick; Immerzeel, Jeroen; Procyshyn, Christopher; Gold, Ross; Park, Sang JoonVanrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 13, 2020
Reel 53481, frame 766
Vanrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Vanrx Pharmasystems Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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