Term ends Feb 6, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 6, 2025
Held by Cellmid Limited
Filed Sep 1, 2009 as application 11/720,983 · Granted May 5, 2015
Base term plus 1888 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2031
Clock starts
Dec 6, 2005
Dec 6, 2005
Term ends
Feb 6, 2031
Feb 6, 2031
Granted
May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015
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
1,888
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.
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 runs 1888 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 6, 2005, when application PCT/JP2005/022354, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 1, 2009) | Dec 6, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1888 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 6, 2031 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 6, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,023,799 | this patent Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2010 Reel 25213, frame 866 | Horiba, Mitsuru; Kodama, Itsuo; Muramatsu, Takashi; Kadomatsu, Kenji | Cell Signals, Inc.; National University Corporation Nagoya University | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Kadomatsu, Kenji; Horiba, Mitsuru; Kodama, Itsuo; Muramatsu, Takashi | Cell Signals, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Kadomatsu, Kenji; Horiba, Mitsuru; Kodama, Itsuo; Muramatsu, Takashi | National University Corporation Nagoya University | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 8, 2012 Reel 29092, frame 506 | National University Corporation Nagoya University; Cell Signals Inc. | Cellmid Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2031
Term ends Feb 6, 2031.
Note
The 1888 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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