Term ended Jul 10, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 12, 2024
Held by NetApp, Inc.
Filed Mar 12, 2004 as application 10/798,987 · Granted Nov 6, 2007
Base term plus 485 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 10, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 12, 2004
Mar 12, 2004
Term ended
Jul 10, 2025
Jul 10, 2025
Granted
Nov 6, 2007
Nov 6, 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
485
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.
2
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 485 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 Mar 12, 2004, when this application, 10/798,987, was filed | Mar 12, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +485 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 10, 2025 | 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 10, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,293,039 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,024,309 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2004 Reel 15080, frame 518 | Deshmukh, Vijay; Swartzlander, Benjamin; Thompson, Timothy J. | Network Appliance, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2010 Reel 24369, frame 864 | Network Appliance, Inc. | NetApp, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 12, 2011 Reel 26745, frame 94 | Network Applicance, Inc. | NetApp, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 485 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
32
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2007 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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