Term ends May 10, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2027
Held by Irdeto B.V.
Filed Oct 31, 2007 as application 11/980,392 · Granted Apr 17, 2012
Base term plus 1172 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2030
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2007
Feb 23, 2007
Term ends
May 10, 2030
May 10, 2030
Granted
Apr 17, 2012
Apr 17, 2012
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
1,172
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.
5
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 1172 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 Feb 23, 2007, when application 11/709,654, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2007) | Feb 23, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1172 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 10, 2030 | 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 | May 10, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,752,032 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 8,161,463 | this patent May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application 14/266,252 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,402,547 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 9,910,971 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2011 Reel 25722, frame 950 | Cloakware Corporation | Irdeto Canada Inc. | Articles of Amendment |
| Jan 31, 2011 Reel 25723, frame 563 | Johnson, Harold Joseph; Gu, Yuan Xiang; Zhou, Yongxin | Cloakware Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2011 Reel 25782, frame 42 | Cloakware Corporation | Irdeto Canada Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name to Be Identified as Irdeto Canada Corporation Previously Recorded on Reel 025722 Frame 0950. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignee's Name Is Correctly Identified as Irdeto Canada Corporation on the Articles of Amendment. |
| Mar 12, 2015 Reel 35186, frame 825 | Irdeto Canada Corporation | Irdeto B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2030
Term ends May 10, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1172 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
113
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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