Also listed on Good Technology Software, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 21, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 9, 2023
Held by Malikie Innovations Limited
Filed May 9, 2003 as application 10/434,967 · Granted Nov 23, 2010
Base term plus 1778 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2028
Clock starts
May 9, 2003
May 9, 2003
Term ends
Mar 21, 2028
Mar 21, 2028
Granted
Nov 23, 2010
Nov 23, 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
1,778
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 1778 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 May 9, 2003, when this application, 10/434,967, was filed | May 9, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1778 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 21, 2028 | 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 | Mar 21, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,788,382 | Term ended 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2003 Reel 14406, frame 511 | Farcasiu, Alexandru M. | 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 4, 2010 Reel 23903, frame 700 | 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 26, 2017 Reel 43339, frame 79 | 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 |
| Apr 27, 2023 Reel 63471, frame 474 | BlackBerry Limited | OT Patent Escrow, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2023 Reel 64015, frame 1 | OT Patent Escrow, LLC | Malikie Innovations Limited | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jun 19, 2023 Reel 64066, frame 1 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Sep 5, 2023 Reel 64806, frame 669 | BlackBerry Limited | OT Patent Escrow, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Cover Sheet at Page 50 to Remove 12817157 Previously Recorded on Reel 063471 Frame 0474. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Sep 5, 2023 Reel 64807, frame 1 | OT Patent Escrow, LLC | Malikie Innovations Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct 12817157 Application Number Previously Recorded at Reel: 064015 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Feb 2, 2026 Reel 74921, frame 1 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Added Patent Number to Remove Patent No. 8,873,407 at Previously Recorded on Reel 64066 Frame 1. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment Effective Date March 20, 2023. |
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What's changing
Mar 2028
Term ends Mar 21, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1778 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
173
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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