Term ends Aug 24, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 24, 2027
Held by BlackBerry Limited
Filed Aug 14, 2017 as application 15/676,020 · Granted Oct 6, 2020
Base term plus 328 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2007
Aug 24, 2007
Term ends
Aug 24, 2027
Aug 24, 2027
Granted
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
base term
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
328
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 9,088,809.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
7
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 328 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is 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 Aug 24, 2007, when application 11/844,883, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 14, 2017) | Aug 24, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +328 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 17, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,088,809) | capped to Aug 24, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 24, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,275,764 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,775,415 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 9,088,809 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,769,528 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 10,798,452 | this patent Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 11,936,953 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| Application 18/428,229 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2017 Reel 43292, frame 238 | Jeon, Joon-hee; Dureau, Vincent; Benting, Steve D.; Lin, Zhenhai; Miller, Michael W; Patel, Manish G. | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 20, 2017 Reel 44567, frame 1 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
| Jul 30, 2026 Reel 75465, frame 538 | Google LLC | BlackBerry Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Aug 2027
Term ends Aug 24, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 328 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 9,088,809.
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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