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US 7,914,734 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 30, 2017 (Perceptive Credit Holdings, LP).

Term ends Nov 17, 2029 · High confidence

Filed Dec 18, 2008 as application 12/338,955 · Granted Mar 29, 2011
Base term plus 334 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2029
Clock starts
Dec 18, 2008
Term ends
Nov 17, 2029
Granted
Mar 29, 2011
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
334
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.
12
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 334 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 18, 2008, when this application, 12/338,955, was filedDec 18, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+334 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 17, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 17, 2029High confidence

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Application 16/159,345Abandoned
not computed
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8 of 12 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
Jan 6, 2009
Reel 22065, frame 668
Livingston, Richard A.Singulex, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 2, 2009
Reel 22216, frame 291
Livingston, Richard A.Singulex, Inc.Re-Record to Correct the Correspondence Address, Previously Recorded on Reel 022065 Frame 0668.
Oct 14, 2015
Reel 36795, frame 185
Singulex, Inc.Oxford Finance LLCSecurity Interest
Oct 4, 2016
Reel 40224, frame 70
Oxford Finance LLCSingulex, Inc.Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents (Releases RF 036795/0185)
Mar 30, 2017
Reel 42117, frame 716
Singulex, Inc.Perceptive Credit Holdings, LPPatent Security Agreement
May 6, 2019
Reel 49095, frame 371
Perceptive Credit Holdings, LPFisk Ventures, LLCAssignment of Patent Security Agreement
Jun 19, 2019
Reel 49516, frame 444
Singulex, Inc.EMD Millipore CorporationLicense

Sources

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