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Albumin Fusion Proteins

US 7,521,424 Term ended
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Term ended Dec 27, 2022 · High confidence

Filed Jul 7, 2005 as application 11/175,690 · Granted Apr 21, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Dec 27, 2022
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jan 20, 2004
Term ended
Dec 27, 2022
Granted
Apr 21, 2009
base term after the term ends 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.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,141,547, US 7,189,690.
3 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.
32
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 resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Jan 20, 2004, when application PCT/US2004/001369, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 7, 2005)Jan 20, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,141,547, US 7,189,690)capped to Dec 27, 2022High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 27, 2022High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2002/040891PCT application
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Application PCT/US2004/001369PCT application
no patent term
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US 7,141,547In force
Apr 2027
Apr 2027
Application PCT/US2005/004041PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,521,424this patent
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
US 7,592,010Term ended
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
US 7,238,667Term ended
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
US 7,847,079Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2018
Dec 2018
8 of 32 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
Jul 7, 2005
Reel 16774, frame 391
Haseltine, William A.; Rosen, Craig A.Human Genome Sciences, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 16, 2006
Reel 18403, frame 404
Ruben, Steven M.Human Genome Sciences, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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