Term ended Dec 10, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 26, 2022
Held by Malikie Innovations Limited
Filed Mar 26, 2002 as application 10/107,032 · Granted Aug 31, 2010
Base term plus 624 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 10, 2023
2002
2026
Clock starts
Mar 26, 2002
Mar 26, 2002
Term ended
Dec 10, 2023
Dec 10, 2023
Granted
Aug 31, 2010
Aug 31, 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
624
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.
6
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 624 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 Mar 26, 2002, when this application, 10/107,032, was filed | Mar 26, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +624 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 10, 2023 | 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 | Dec 10, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,788,382 | this patent Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,275,073 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,890,091 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 7,840,631 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 7,184,801 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| Application 13/684,021 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2002 Reel 12744, frame 434 | Jones, David; Ganji, Kiran | Jp Mobile Operating, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2005 Reel 16645, frame 669 | Jp Mobile Operating, L.p. | TX Technology Acquisition Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 12, 2007 Reel 19820, frame 250 | TX Technology Corporation | Good Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2010 Reel 23896, frame 146 | TX Technology Acquisition Corporation | Good Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 4, 2012 Reel 29405, frame 271 | Good Technology, Inc. | Good Technology Acquisition, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 4, 2012 Reel 29405, frame 351 | Good Technology Acquisition, Inc. | Good Technology Software, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 25, 2017 Reel 43325, frame 787 | Good Technology Software, Inc. | Good Technology Holdings Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 30, 2018 Reel 45196, frame 255 | Good Technology Holdings Limited | BlackBerry Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2023 Reel 64104, frame 103 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2023 Reel 64271, frame 199 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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Note
The 624 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
169
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
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
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