Term ended Jun 18, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 18, 2024
Held by Imagination Technologies Limited
Filed Jan 6, 2006 as application 11/326,701 · Granted Aug 5, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jun 18, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jun 18, 2004
Jun 18, 2004
Term ended
Jun 18, 2024
Jun 18, 2024
Granted
Aug 5, 2008
Aug 5, 2008
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
22
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 18, 2004, when application 10/871,347, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 6, 2006) | Jun 18, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Jun 18, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,206,870 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,865,637 | Term ended no later than Oct 2025 | no later than Oct 2025 |
| Application 60/702,727 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/734,623 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,409,533 | this patent Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,801,033 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| Application 11/458,061 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,945,803 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2006 Reel 17372, frame 19 | Jones, Anthony Mark | Ambric, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 10, 2007 Reel 18777, frame 202 | Ambric, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2007 Reel 19116, frame 277 | Ambric, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Correction to Change Nature of Conveyance on Document #103361115 with R/F 018777/0202, Conveyance Should Read Security Agreement. |
| Apr 12, 2007 Reel 19193, frame 658 | Ambric, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 17, 2009 Reel 22288, frame 190 | Ambric, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Corrective Assignment to Correct Assignment to Security Agreement Previously Recorded Reel/Frame: 019193/0658 |
| Mar 10, 2009 Reel 22390, frame 992 | Silicon Valley Bank | Ambric, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 16, 2009 Reel 22399, frame 380 | Ambric, Inc. | Nethra Imaging Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2010 Reel 24611, frame 288 | Nethra Imaging, Inc. | Arm Limited | Security Agreement |
| Feb 13, 2013 Reel 29809, frame 76 | Silicon Valley Bank | Ambric, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 11, 2013 Reel 31576, frame 540 | Metagence Technologies Limited | Imagination Technologies Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 11, 2013 Reel 31576, frame 320 | Nethra Imaging, Inc. | Metagence Technologies Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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later US patents cite this one
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