Term ends Nov 19, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 18, 2024
Held by Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.
Filed Jun 18, 2004 as application 10/871,673 · Granted Jun 1, 2010
Base term plus 1249 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Jun 18, 2004
Jun 18, 2004
Term ends
Nov 19, 2027
Nov 19, 2027
Granted
Jun 1, 2010
Jun 1, 2010
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
1,249
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
139
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 1249 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 18, 2004, when this application, 10/871,673, was filed | Jun 18, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1249 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 19, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 19, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,623,697 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2011 | Sep 2011 |
| US 6,767,440 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 6,706,000 | Term ended no later than Mar 2020 | no later than Mar 2020 |
| US 6,866,675 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 6,878,120 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2009 | Apr 2009 |
| Application 60/370,683 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 6,818,416 | Term ended Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 |
| US 6,858,015 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
8 of 139 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 2004 Reel 15199, frame 864 | Burke, David W.; Wilsey, Christopher D. | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 29, 2004 Reel 15199, frame 964 | Roche Diagnostics GmbH | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 29, 2004 Reel 15200, frame 295 | Marquant, Michael; Zapf, Udo; Fritz, Michael; Mosoiu, Dan | Roche Diagnostics GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 13, 2007 Reel 19419, frame 381 | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Corange International Limited | Assignor Hereby Confirms the Assignment to Corange International Limited of an Undivided One-Half Interest in Each of the Applications |
| May 5, 2009 Reel 22634, frame 371 | Corange International Limited | Roche Operations Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Jun 23, 2015 Reel 36008, frame 670 | Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 24, 2024 Reel 67204, frame 694 | Roche Operations Ltd. | Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2027
Term ends Nov 19, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1249 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
251
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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