Term ends Jan 2, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 21, 2025
Held by Geotab Inc.
Filed Dec 25, 2006 as application 11/571,273 · Granted Aug 31, 2010
Base term plus 530 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2005
Jul 21, 2005
Term ends
Jan 2, 2027
Jan 2, 2027
Granted
Aug 31, 2010
Aug 31, 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
530
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.
2
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 530 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 Jul 21, 2005, when application PCT/CA2005/001150, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 25, 2006) | Jul 21, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +530 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 7,786,895 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 2006 Reel 18745, frame 66 | Zoladek, Jacek Grzegorz; Goodall, Colin David; Preece, Douglas John; Pepper, Gary Thomas | Netistix Technologies Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2016 Reel 39794, frame 384 | Netistix Technologies Corporation | BSM Wireless Inc. | Merger |
| Sep 20, 2016 Reel 40085, frame 521 | BSM Wireless Inc. | BSM Technologies Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Dec 22, 2016 Reel 40744, frame 314 | BSM Technologies Ltd. F/K/A BSM Wireless Inc. | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Security Interest |
| Apr 29, 2020 Reel 52522, frame 706 | BSM Technologies Ltd.; Geotab Inc. | Geotab Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| May 19, 2020 Reel 52697, frame 574 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Geotab Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 20, 2020 Reel 52718, frame 50 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Geotab Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Cover Sheet, Which Listed Patent Number 6377219 in Error. the Correct Patent Number Is 6377210 Previously Recorded on Reel 052697 Frame 0574. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Listing of Patent 6377210 on Page 6, Row 8 of the Original Release of Security Interest.. |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 2, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 530 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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