Term ended Jul 11, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 1, 2021
Filed Jun 1, 2001 as application 09/872,289 · Granted Aug 8, 2006
Base term plus 770 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 11, 2023
2001
2026
Clock starts
Jun 1, 2001
Jun 1, 2001
Term ended
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
Granted
Aug 8, 2006
Aug 8, 2006
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
770
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
43
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 770 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 1, 2001, when this application, 09/872,289, was filed | Jun 1, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +770 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 11, 2023 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 11, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/276,610 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 7,095,744 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2018 | Aug 2018 |
| US 7,088,731 | this patent Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 6,835,131 | Term ended Nov 2019 | Nov 2019 |
| US 6,704,372 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2016 | Mar 2016 |
| US 7,388,930 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 6,791,423 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 7,353,004 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
8 of 43 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 1, 2001 Reel 11888, frame 391 | Iny, Ofer | Dune Networks | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 8, 2015 Reel 34661, frame 947 | Provigent, Inc.; Dune Networks, Inc. | Broadcom Corporation | Merger |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47196, frame 97 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48555, frame 510 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Execution Date Previously Recorded at Reel: 047196 Frame: 0097. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
Sources
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Note
The 770 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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