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Protocol to Implement Token Id Mechanism for Network Data Transfer

US 7,903,660 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 8, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 21, 2009 as application 12/470,411 · Granted Mar 8, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 8, 2019
2005 2026
Clock starts
May 25, 2005
No longer in force
Mar 8, 2019
Granted
Mar 8, 2011
Term would have run to
Sep 18, 2025
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
116
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.

Its term would have run to Sep 18, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 116 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 25, 2005, when application 11/137,925, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 21, 2009)May 25, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+116 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 18, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 8, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 8, 2019High confidence

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US 7,561,567In force
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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
Dec 3, 2010
Reel 25444, frame 845
Olson, Dave; Lindahl, Gregory B.; Rubin, Jeffrey B.Pathscale, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 3, 2010
Reel 25448, frame 307
Qlogic System Interconnect Group, Inc.Qlogic, CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 3, 2010
Reel 25451, frame 743
Pathscale, Inc.Qlogic System Interconnect Group, Inc.Change of Name
May 7, 2012
Reel 28168, frame 202
Qlogic CorporationIntel CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 15, 2022
Reel 61175, frame 176
Intel CorporationTahoe Research, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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