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Method and System for Automated Detection of Immunohistochemical (IHC) Patterns

US 7,941,275 Term ended
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Term ended Feb 25, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Mar 27, 2005 as application 11/091,614 · Granted May 10, 2011
Base term plus 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Feb 25, 2026
2004 2026
Clock starts
Sep 10, 2004
Term ended
Feb 25, 2026
Granted
May 10, 2011
base term patent term adjustment 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
533
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.
15
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 533 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Sep 10, 2004, when application 10/938,314, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 27, 2005)Sep 10, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+533 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 25, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 25, 2026High confidence

This family

Application 10/938,314Abandoned
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Application 10/966,071Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2005/003311PCT application
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US 7,979,212In force
Dec 2026
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Application PCT/US2005/003272PCT application
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US 7,941,275this patent
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Application PCT/US2005/010332PCT application
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Application PCT/US2005/017481PCT application
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8 of 15 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
Sep 27, 2005
Reel 17040, frame 428
Gholap, Gauri; Gholap, Abhijeet S.; Rao, C.v.k.; Barsky, Sanford, H., M.D.; Vipra, Madhura; Kamble, Gurunath; Patil, Suhas; Jadhav, PrithvirajBioimagene, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 24, 2011
Reel 26012, frame 348
Bioimagene, Inc.Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.Merger

Sources

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

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