Term ends Nov 17, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Filed Nov 30, 2005 as application 11/290,105 · Granted Mar 3, 2009

Base term plus 352 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 17, 2026

2005 2026

Clock starts
Nov 30, 2005

Term ends
Nov 17, 2026

Granted
Mar 3, 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

352

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.

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 352 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Nov 30, 2005, when this application, 11/290,105, was filed	Nov 30, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+352 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 17, 2026	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	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 17, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 7,500,091	this patent Nov 2026	Nov 2026
Application PCT/US2006/045708	PCT application no patent term	no patent term

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
Jan 13, 2006 Reel 17016, frame 602	Ergan, Cenk; Li, Dan; Fortin, Michael R.; Giese, Robin; Reinauer, Robert L.	Microsoft Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 9, 2014 Reel 34543, frame 1	Microsoft Corporation	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Nov 2026

Term ends Nov 17, 2026. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 352 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2009 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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