Term ends Sep 19, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 30, 2027
Held by Lonza Sales AG
Filed Apr 30, 2007 as application 11/799,148 · Granted Jul 21, 2015
Base term plus 873 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
Apr 30, 2007
Apr 30, 2007
Term ends
Sep 19, 2029
Sep 19, 2029
Granted
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 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
873
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.
6
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 873 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 Apr 30, 2007, when this application, 11/799,148, was filed | Apr 30, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +873 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 19, 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 | In force (reinstated) | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 19, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,085,778 | this patent Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 9,629,929 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 9,889,210 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application 15/857,539 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,695,443 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application 16/905,719 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 2, 2015 Reel 36720, frame 848 | Lotvall, Jan; Valadi, Hadi; Nilsson, Jonas | Exosome Venture AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 2, 2015 Reel 36720, frame 856 | Exosome Venture AB | VL27, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 29, 2016 Reel 37855, frame 571 | VL27, Inc. | Codiak Biosciences, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 29, 2016 Reel 37855, frame 728 | Lotvall, Jan; Valadi, Hadi | Exosome Venture AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 29, 2016 Reel 37958, frame 470 | Lotvall, Jan; Valadi, Hadi | Exosome Venture AB | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Listing of Inventors, Properties and Attorney Docket Number Previously Recorded on Reel 036720 Frame 0848. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 11, 2023 Reel 65183, frame 772 | Codiak Biosciences, Inc. | Lonza Sales AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2029
Term ends Sep 19, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 873 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
50
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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