Term ends Jul 7, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 26, 2028
Filed Jul 10, 2009 as application 12/501,094 · Granted Jul 12, 2016
Base term plus 807 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2029
Clock starts
Jun 26, 2008
Jun 26, 2008
Term ends
Jul 7, 2029
Jul 7, 2029
Granted
Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016
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
807
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,460,888.
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.
14
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 807 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 26, 2008, when application PCT/IB2008/002691, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 10, 2009) | Jun 26, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +807 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 11, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,460,888) | capped to Jul 7, 2029 | 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 | Jul 7, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/831,128 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,387,260 | this patent Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 9,096,868 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
| US 8,367,348 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2017 | Feb 2017 |
| US 8,247,182 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2020 | Aug 2020 |
| US 8,460,888 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 9,201,076 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 |
| Application 13/889,668 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Lafaye, Pierre; Rougeon, Francois; Bourgeois, Jean-pierre | Institut Pasteur | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Lafaye, Pierre; Rougeon, Francois; Bourgeois, Jean-pierre | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2016 Reel 38907, frame 1 | Rougeon, Francois; Lafaye, Pierre; Bourgeois, Jean-pierre | Institut Pasteur; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2029
Term ends Jul 7, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 807 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,460,888.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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