Also listed on Otonomy, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Apr 21, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 21, 2029
Held by Dompé Farmaceutici S.P.A.
Filed Aug 18, 2021 as application 17/405,990 · Granted Apr 30, 2024
Base term plus 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Apr 21, 2009
Apr 21, 2009
Term ends
Apr 21, 2029
Apr 21, 2029
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Apr 30, 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
20
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,123,285.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
27
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 20 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 1 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 Apr 21, 2009, when application 12/427,663, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 18, 2021) | Apr 21, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +20 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 11, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,123,285) | capped to Apr 21, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 21, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,132,087 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 8,030,297 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,318,817 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2009/051172 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,546,363 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,828,980 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| US 8,658,626 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 8,680,082 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
8 of 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2023 Reel 63334, frame 582 | Harris, Jeffrey P. | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2023 Reel 63334, frame 584 | Lichter, Jay; Vollrath, Benedikt; Duron, Sergio G.; Piu, Fabrice; Dellamary, Luis A.; Ye, Qiang; Lebel, Carl; Scaife, Michael Christopher; Trammel, Andrew M. | Otonomy, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2023 Reel 63901, frame 1 | Otonomy, Inc. | Dompé Farmaceutici S.P.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2023 Reel 63982, frame 824 | Otonomy, Inc. | Dompé Farmaceutici S.P.A. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Correction of City Previously Recorded on Reel 063901 Frame 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Apr 2029
Term ends Apr 21, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,123,285.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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