Term ended no later than Mar 28, 2019 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 12, 2019
Held by ResMed Pty Ltd.
Filed Apr 17, 2002 as application 10/123,484 · Granted Sep 28, 2004
Base term plus 16 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Mar 28, 2019
1999
2026
Clock starts
Mar 12, 1999
Mar 12, 1999
Ended no later than
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019
Granted
Sep 28, 2004
Sep 28, 2004
base term
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
16
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
3 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.
323
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 16 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Low. 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 Mar 12, 1999, when applications 29/101,860, 29/101,861 and 29/101,862, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 17, 2002); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 12, 2019 | 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 | +16 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 28, 2019 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Mar 28, 2019 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,185,652 | Term ended Feb 2020 | Feb 2020 |
| US 7,089,939 | Term ended May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 6,871,649 | Term ended no later than May 2020 | no later than May 2020 |
| US 6,910,483 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,600,513 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 6,796,308 | this patent no later than Mar 2019 | no later than Mar 2019 |
| US 6,557,556 | Term ended no later than Jan 2018 | no later than Jan 2018 |
| US 7,669,599 | Term ended no later than Apr 2020 | no later than Apr 2020 |
8 of 323 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2002 Reel 12811, frame 979 | Gunaratnam, Michael K.; Smart, Gregory S.; Kwok, Philip R. | ResMed Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2014 Reel 32209, frame 988 | ResMed Limited | ResMed Limited | Change of Address |
| Apr 30, 2019 Reel 50005, frame 461 | ResMed Limited | ResMed Pty Ltd. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 16 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Mar 28, 2019. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
471
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2004 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.