Term ended May 7, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 13, 2024
Held by Mobileum, Inc.
Filed Feb 13, 2004 as application 10/778,861 · Granted Feb 16, 2010
Base term plus 84 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 7, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 13, 2004
Feb 13, 2004
Term ended
May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024
Granted
Feb 16, 2010
Feb 16, 2010
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
84
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.
33
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 84 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 Feb 13, 2004, when this application, 10/778,861, was filed | Feb 13, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +84 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 7, 2024 | 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 | May 7, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,072,651 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,664,494 | this patent May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 7,577,431 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2021 | Aug 2021 |
| US 7,505,769 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
| Application 10/918,644 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/280,862 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/294,329 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,660,580 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
8 of 33 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 12, 2004 Reel 15566, frame 59 | Jiang, Yue J. | Roamware, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 31, 2014 Reel 34114, frame 742 | Mobileum, Inc. | Partners for Growth IV, L.P. | Security Interest |
| May 11, 2015 Reel 35624, frame 478 | Roamware, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Oct 19, 2016 Reel 40423, frame 445 | Roamware, Inc. | Mobileum, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Nov 1, 2016 Reel 40181, frame 766 | Mobileum, Inc. | Antares Capital LP, as Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 1, 2016 Reel 40541, frame 800 | Mobileum, Inc. | Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, as Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Nov 1, 2016 Reel 40542, frame 941 | Silicon Valley Bank | Mobileum, Inc. (Formerly Known as Roamware, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 1, 2016 Reel 40542, frame 970 | Partners for Growth IV, L.P. | Mobileum, Inc. (Formerly Known as Roamware, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 2, 2016 Reel 40545, frame 209 | Silicon Valley Bank | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 13, 2019 Reel 50035, frame 190 | Mobileum, Inc. | Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Sep 5, 2019 Reel 50296, frame 269 | Stellus Capital Investment Corporation, as Agent | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest Recorded at Reel/Frame 040541/0800 |
| Mar 1, 2022 Reel 59135, frame 88 | Mobileum, Inc.; Sigos LLC; We Do Technologies Americas, Inc. | Jefferies Finance, LLC | Security Interest |
| Mar 6, 2022 Reel 59179, frame 591 | Antares Capital LP | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 6, 2022 Reel 59179, frame 746 | Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P. | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 18, 2024 Reel 68979, frame 571 | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Mobileum, Inc.; Sigos LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (First Lien), Recorded on March 1, 2022 at Reel/Frame 059135/0066 |
| Sep 18, 2024 Reel 68979, frame 579 | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Mobileum, Inc.; Sigos LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (Second Lien), Recorded on March 1, 2022 at Reel/Frame 059135/0088 |
| Sep 18, 2024 Reel 68987, frame 230 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Mobileum, Inc.; Sigos LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (First Lien Note) |
| Sep 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (First Lien), Recorded on March 1, 2022 at Reel/Frame 059135/0066 |
| Sep 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Sigos LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (First Lien), Recorded on March 1, 2022 at Reel/Frame 059135/0066 |
| Sep 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (Second Lien), Recorded on March 1, 2022 at Reel/Frame 059135/0088 |
| Sep 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Sigos LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (Second Lien), Recorded on March 1, 2022 at Reel/Frame 059135/0088 |
| Sep 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Mobileum, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (First Lien Note) |
| Sep 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Sigos LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral (First Lien Note) |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 84 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
181
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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