Term ended Feb 24, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 15, 2023
Filed Jul 7, 2004 as application 10/886,372 · Granted Nov 20, 2007
Base term plus 590 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 24, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jul 15, 2003
Jul 15, 2003
Term ended
Feb 24, 2025
Feb 24, 2025
Granted
Nov 20, 2007
Nov 20, 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
590
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.
19
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 590 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 Jul 15, 2003, when applications 10/620,080 and 10/620,249, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jul 7, 2004) | Jul 15, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +590 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 24, 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 | Feb 24, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,908,413 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 7,293,156 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2019 | Nov 2019 |
| US 8,214,588 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
| US 7,870,334 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2019 | Jan 2019 |
| Application 10/808,232 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,827,353 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2014 | Nov 2014 |
| US 7,299,334 | this patent Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 7,603,580 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2013 | Oct 2013 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2004 Reel 15558, frame 456 | Zohar, Ofir; Revah, Yaron; Helman, Haim; Cohen, Dror; Schwartz, Shemer | XIV Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 11, 2009 Reel 22368, frame 815 | XIV Ltd. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 590 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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