Term ends Jan 20, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 16, 2025
Held by Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
Filed Apr 6, 2009 as application 12/083,532 · Granted Jul 17, 2012
Base term plus 614 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
May 16, 2005
May 16, 2005
Term ends
Jan 20, 2027
Jan 20, 2027
Granted
Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012
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
614
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,158,413, to Jan 20, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 614 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 16, 2005, when application PCT/IB2005/001753, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 6, 2009) | May 16, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +614 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 20, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,158,413) | resolves to Jan 20, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Jan 20, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/994,204 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,158,413 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,017,571 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Application 11/596,675 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,735,565 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,222,029 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 9,657,074 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2021 | May 2021 |
| Application 12/731,196 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2009 Reel 22576, frame 279 | Charneau, Pierre; Despres, Philippe | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2014 Reel 32364, frame 952 | Institut Pasteur | Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Institut Pasteur | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Institut Pasteur | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Institut Pasteur | Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 20, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 614 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,158,413, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.