Lapsed May 27, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 20, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Université Paris Cité
Filed Sep 25, 2008 as application 12/158,221 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1078 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 27, 2026
2006
2029
Clock starts
Dec 20, 2006
Dec 20, 2006
No longer in force
May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026
Granted
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
Term would have run to
Dec 2, 2029
Dec 2, 2029
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
1,078
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
Its term would have run to Dec 2, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1078 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Dec 20, 2006, when application PCT/IB2006/004127, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 25, 2008) | Dec 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1078 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 2, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 27, 2026 | 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 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,222,029 | In force 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2010 Reel 24898, frame 290 | Poyart, Claire; Lamy, Marie-cecile; Dramsi, Shaynoor; Couve, Elisabeth; Glaser, Philippe; Trieu-cuot, Patrick | Institut Pasteur; Universite Rene Descartes Paris V; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Dramsi, Shaynoor; Lamy, Marie-cecile; Poyart, Claire; Trieu-cuot, Patrick; Couve, Elisabeth; Glaser, Philippe | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Dramsi, Shaynoor; Lamy, Marie-cecile; Poyart, Claire; Trieu-cuot, Patrick; Couve, Elisabeth; Glaser, Philippe | Universite Rene Descartes Paris V | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Dramsi, Shaynoor; Lamy, Marie-cecile; Poyart, Claire; Trieu-cuot, Patrick; Couve, Elisabeth; Glaser, Philippe | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2014 Reel 33189, frame 334 | Institut Pasteur; Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Institut Pasteur; Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Assistance-Publique Hopitaux de Paris | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V); Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V); Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V); Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Universite Paris Descartes (Also Known as Universite Rene Descartes Paris V); Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assistance-Publique Hopitaux de Paris | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 12, 2022 Reel 59988, frame 388 | Universite de Paris | Université Paris Cité | Change of Name |
| May 12, 2022 Reel 60044, frame 856 | Universite Paris Descartes | Universite de Paris | Merger |
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Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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