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Term ends Nov 29, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Aug 11, 2005 as application 11/201,661 · Granted Jan 20, 2009
Base term plus 475 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2005 2026
Clock starts
Aug 11, 2005
Term ends
Nov 29, 2026
Granted
Jan 20, 2009
base term patent term adjustment 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
475
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.
414
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 475 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 11, 2005, when this application, 11/201,661, was filedAug 11, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+475 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 29, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 29, 2026High confidence

This family

US 6,690,268Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2016
Feb 2016
US 6,477,464Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2014
Nov 2014
US 6,538,827Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2015
Mar 2015
Application 09/808,428Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,224,324Lapsed on the fee record
May 2019
May 2019
US 6,396,408Term ended
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 6,693,517Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2016
Feb 2016
US 6,341,523Term ended
no later than Jan 2018
no later than Jan 2018
8 of 414 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 19, 2005
Reel 17120, frame 249
Deward, Joshua L.; Brown, Steven L.; Schofield, Kenneth; Lynam, Niall R.Donnelly CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 9, 2013
Reel 30760, frame 797
Donnelly CorporationMagna Donnelly CorporationChange of Name
Jul 9, 2013
Reel 30760, frame 812
Magna Donnelly CorporationMagna Mirrors of America, Inc.Change of Name
Jul 10, 2013
Reel 30769, frame 346
Magna Mirrors of America, Inc.Magna Electronics Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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