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Peptides Derived from Human BPLP Protein.

US 8,017,571 Term ended
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Term ended Sep 20, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jan 19, 2007 as application 10/593,071 · Granted Sep 13, 2011
Base term plus 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 20, 2026
2005 2026
Clock starts
Mar 18, 2005
Term ended
Sep 20, 2026
Granted
Sep 13, 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
551
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.
20
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 551 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 Mar 18, 2005, when application PCT/IB2005/000700, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 19, 2007)Mar 18, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+551 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 20, 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 orderSep 20, 2026High confidence

This family

Application 10/994,204Abandoned
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US 8,158,413In force
Jun 2029
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US 8,017,571this patent
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
Application 11/596,675Abandoned
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US 8,735,565Lapsed on the fee record
May 2026
May 2026
US 8,222,029In force
Jan 2027
Jan 2027
US 9,657,074Lapsed on the fee record
May 2021
May 2021
Application 12/731,196Abandoned
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8 of 20 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 1, 2008
Reel 21177, frame 885
Rougeot, Catherine; Ungeheuer, Marie-noelle; Wisner, Anne; Dufour, Evelyne; Huaulme, Jean-francoisInstitut PasteurAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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