Term ends Jan 2, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 3, 2024
Held by Kyocera Corporation
Filed Dec 3, 2004 as application 11/004,637 · Granted Apr 27, 2010
Base term plus 760 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Dec 3, 2004
Dec 3, 2004
Term ends
Jan 2, 2027
Jan 2, 2027
Granted
Apr 27, 2010
Apr 27, 2010
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
760
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.
150
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 760 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 Dec 3, 2004, when this application, 11/004,637, was filed | Dec 3, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +760 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 2, 2027 | 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 | Jan 2, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,707,039 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2005/011085 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2005/011084 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 11/097,961 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/097,093 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,599,844 | Term ended no later than Dec 2024 | no later than Dec 2024 |
| US 8,019,648 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 7,596,269 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
8 of 150 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2009 Reel 22313, frame 170 | King, Martin T; Stafford-fraser, James Q; Kushler, Clifford A. | Exbiblio, B.v. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 9, 2011 Reel 25779, frame 251 | Exbiblio B.V. | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 2, 2017 Reel 44101, frame 610 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
| Aug 3, 2021 Reel 57651, frame 445 | Google LLC | Kyocera Corporation | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 2, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 760 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
176
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.
How we rank
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