Term ended Apr 14, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 14, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Magna Electronics Inc.
Filed Apr 24, 2009 as application 12/429,605 · Granted Nov 10, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Apr 14, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 14, 2005
Apr 14, 2005
Term ended
Apr 14, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
Granted
Nov 10, 2009
Nov 10, 2009
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.
23
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: Medium. 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 Apr 14, 2005, when application 11/105,757, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 24, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 14, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium 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 | Apr 14, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,526,103 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,616,781 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,792,329 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,873,187 | Term ended no later than Apr 2025 | no later than Apr 2025 |
| US 7,949,152 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,090,153 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 8,325,986 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 8,593,521 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2013 Reel 31425, frame 65 | Schofield, Kenneth; Lynam, Niall R. | Donnelly Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 17, 2013 Reel 31425, frame 80 | Donnelly Corporation | Magna Donnelly Corporation | Change of Name |
| Oct 17, 2013 Reel 31425, frame 101 | Magna Donnelly Corporation | Magna Mirrors of America, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 17, 2013 Reel 31425, frame 124 | Magna Mirrors of America, Inc. | Magna Electronics Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
363
later US patents cite this one
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