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Self Healing Memory

US 7,827,353 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 2, 2014 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 24, 2004 as application 10/808,561 · Granted Nov 2, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 568 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 2, 2014
2003 2026
Clock starts
Jul 15, 2003
No longer in force
Nov 2, 2014
Granted
Nov 2, 2010
Term would have run to
Feb 2, 2025
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
568
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
19
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Feb 2, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 568 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 15, 2003, when applications 10/620,080 and 10/620,249, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Mar 24, 2004)Jul 15, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+568 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 2, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 2, 2014High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 2, 2014High confidence

This family

US 7,908,413In force
Apr 2029
Apr 2029
US 7,293,156Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2019
Nov 2019
US 8,214,588Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
US 7,870,334Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2019
Jan 2019
Application 10/808,232Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,827,353this patent
Nov 2014
Nov 2014
US 7,299,334Term ended
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
US 7,603,580Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2013
Oct 2013
8 of 19 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 24, 2004
Reel 15151, frame 922
Zohar, Ofir; Helman, Haim; Revah, Yaron; Cohen, Dror; Schwartz, ShemerXIV Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 27, 2009
Reel 22159, frame 949
XIV Ltd.International Business Machines CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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