Term ends Aug 17, 2029 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 30, 2022
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by SAP SE
Filed Jan 10, 2003 as application 10/340,208 · Granted Jun 28, 2011
Base term plus 2666 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2002
2029
Clock starts
Apr 30, 2002
Apr 30, 2002
Term ends
Aug 17, 2029
Aug 17, 2029
Granted
Jun 28, 2011
Jun 28, 2011
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
2,666
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.
12
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 2666 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 Apr 30, 2002, when applications 10/136,852 and 10/137,207, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jan 10, 2003); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 30, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2666 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 17, 2029 | 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 | Aug 17, 2029 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,151,453 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,233,958 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 6,681,990 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,290,708 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 6,901,304 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 6,843,415 | Term ended May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,969,306 | this patent Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 8,019,740 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2003 Reel 14195, frame 946 | Ebert, Peter S.; Swan, Richard J.; Lin, Tao; Weng, Jie; Vogler, Hartmut K.; Mo, Brian S.; Haller, Stephan | SAP Aktiengesellschaft | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 26, 2014 Reel 33625, frame 334 | SAP AG | SAP SE | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2029
Term ends Aug 17, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 2666 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
596
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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