Term ends Jan 30, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 30, 2035
Held by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Filed Dec 3, 2020 as application 17/110,398 · Granted Mar 12, 2024
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015
Term ends
Jan 30, 2035
Jan 30, 2035
Granted
Mar 12, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
base term
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,117,836, to Jan 30, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
21
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 0 of 2 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 30, 2015, when application PCT/US2015/013672, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 3, 2020) | Jan 30, 2035 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,117,836) | resolves to Jan 30, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 30, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2015/013672 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,117,836 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| Application 16/178,641 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,925,709 | this patent Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 11,717,515 | In force Dec 2041 | Dec 2041 |
| Application 18/137,925 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,857,542 | In force Dec 2041 | Dec 2041 |
| US 12,070,450 | In force Dec 2041 | Dec 2041 |
8 of 21 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 16, 2022 Reel 61200, frame 836 | Johnson, Mary Ann; Allain, Leonardo Resende; Eickhoff, W. Mark; Ikeda, Craig B.; Brown, Chad D.; Flanagan, Francis J., JR.; Nofsinger, Rebecca; Marota, Melanie; Lupton, Lisa; Patel, Paresh B.; Xi, Hanmi; Xu, Wei | Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2024 Reel 67034, frame 711 | Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.; Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
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What's changing
Jan 2035
Term ends Jan 30, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,117,836, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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