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Flavoring of Drug-Containing Chewing Gums

US 8,658,200 Term ended
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Term ended May 18, 2025 · High confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Mar 30, 2026.

Held by McNeil AB
Filed Oct 28, 2012 as application 13/662,517 · Granted Feb 25, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended May 18, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
May 18, 2005
Term ended
May 18, 2025
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,323,683, to May 18, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 18, 2005, when application 11/131,561, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2012)May 18, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,323,683)resolves to May 18, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Mar 30, 2026, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 18, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,323,683In force
Apr 2028
Apr 2028
US 8,658,200this patent
May 2025
May 2025
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
Jun 18, 2015
Reel 35861, frame 493
McNeil-PPC, Inc.McNeil ABAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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