Lapsed Jul 19, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 14, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Jul 14, 2006 as application 11/485,991 · Granted Jul 19, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1179 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 19, 2023
2006
2029
Clock starts
Jul 14, 2006
Jul 14, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 19, 2023
Jul 19, 2023
Granted
Jul 19, 2011
Jul 19, 2011
Term would have run to
Oct 5, 2029
Oct 5, 2029
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
1,179
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
29
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 Oct 5, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1179 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 14, 2006, when this application, 11/485,991, was filed | Jul 14, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1179 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 5, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 19, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 19, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,909,879 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2017 | Jun 2017 |
| US 7,013,145 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2018 | Mar 2018 |
| US 7,489,690 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,355,413 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2021 | Jan 2021 |
| US 7,907,578 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2006/023872 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,984,130 | this patent Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 8,244,209 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
8 of 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2006 Reel 18058, frame 671 | Bogineni, Kalyani; Flynn, Gerard J.; Stone, JR., William H.; Salas, Edward A. | Cellco Partnership (D/B/A Verizon Wireless) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 20, 2008 Reel 20975, frame 1 | Bogineni, Kalyani; Flynn, Gerard J; Stone, William H; Salas, Edward A | Cellco Partnership D/B/A Verizon Wireless | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name to Read as Cellco Partnership D/B/A Verizon Wireless Previously Recorded on Reel 018058 Frame 0671. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the the Correction to the Assignee Name. |
Sources
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Note
The 1179 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
334
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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