Lapsed Feb 27, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 17, 2028
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Reckitt Benckiser Finish B.V.
Filed Sep 11, 2015 as application 14/851,067 · Granted Feb 27, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 35 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 27, 2026
2008
2028
Clock starts
Jan 17, 2008
Jan 17, 2008
No longer in force
Feb 27, 2026
Feb 27, 2026
Granted
Feb 27, 2018
Feb 27, 2018
Term would have run to
Feb 21, 2028
Feb 21, 2028
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
35
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
4
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 Feb 21, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 35 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 17, 2008, when application PCT/GB2008/000153, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 11, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 17, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +35 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 21, 2028 | 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 27, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,669,219 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 9,902,926 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
2 of 4 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 2, 2015 Reel 36711, frame 511 | Moreux, Frederic; Roy, Pavlinka; Wiedemann, Ralf | Reckitt Benckiser N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 26, 2015 Reel 37160, frame 868 | Reckitt Benckiser N.V. | Reckitt Benckiser Finish B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 35 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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