Surrendered on reissue Sep 18, 2012 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 28, 2026
Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.
Surrendered on reissue Sep 18, 2012 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE43,672.
Held by Janssen Biotech, Inc.
Filed Apr 28, 2006 as application 11/413,561 · Granted Jul 14, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 359 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Sep 18, 2012
2006
2027
Clock starts
Apr 28, 2006
Apr 28, 2006
No longer in force
Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012
Granted
Jul 14, 2009
Jul 14, 2009
Term would have run to
Apr 22, 2027
Apr 22, 2027
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
359
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
Not on record
Maintenance fees
USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.
11
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 359 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events, so no fee is counted as paid or unpaid. Confidence: Medium. 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 28, 2006, when this application, 11/413,561, was filed | Apr 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +359 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 22, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse | no change | Medium confidence |
| Reissue | US RE43,672 issued Sep 18, 2012, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Sep 18, 2012 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Sep 18, 2012 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,560,112 | this patent Sep 2012 | Sep 2012 |
| US 7,833,755 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,067,003 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US RE43,672 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,226,611 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,623,362 | Term ended no later than Apr 2026 | no later than Apr 2026 |
| US 9,340,613 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 9,631,016 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2012 Reel 27493, frame 310 | Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. | Janssen Biotech, Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 1, 2012 Reel 28137, frame 551 | Centocor, Inc. | Ortho Biotech, Inc. | Merger |
| Jan 31, 2019 Reel 48223, frame 122 | Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc. | Janssen Biotech, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 359 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
128
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2009 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.