Systems and Methods for Enabling Two-Way Communication Between One or More Exercise Devices and Computer Devices and for Enabling Users of the One or More Exercise Devices to Competitively Exercise

US 7,166,064 Term ended

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Term ended Aug 22, 2020 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Icon Health and Fitness, Inc.

Filed Sep 5, 2001 as application 09/947,193 · Granted Jan 23, 2007

Base term plus 411 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Aug 22, 2020

1999 2026

Clock starts
Jul 8, 1999

Term ended
Aug 22, 2020

Granted
Jan 23, 2007

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

411

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.

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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 Jul 8, 1999, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 5, 2001); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jul 8, 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	+411 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 22, 2020	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	Aug 22, 2020	Medium confidence

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Systems and Methods for Enabling Two-Way Communication Between One or More Exercise Devices and Computer Devices and for Enabling Users of the One or More Exercise Devices to Competitively Exercise

Term ended Aug 22, 2020 · Medium confidence

20-year base term ended Jul 8, 2019

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