Term ends Jul 8, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 24, 2028
Held by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Filed Mar 24, 2008 as application 12/053,982 · Granted May 7, 2013
USPTO first gave this application the number US 8,401,442 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Mar 24, 2008
Mar 24, 2008
Term ends
Jul 8, 2028
Jul 8, 2028
Granted
May 7, 2013
May 7, 2013
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
106
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.
23
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 106 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 Mar 24, 2008, when this application, 12/053,982, was filed | Mar 24, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +106 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 8, 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 | Jul 8, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,437,669 | this patent Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 8,688,008 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 9,703,257 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 9,886,002 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,817,333 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 9,851,685 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,857,766 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 9,851,688 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2008 Reel 20889, frame 323 | Morioka, Masanari; Miyabe, Shigeo; Ueno, Takahito | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2028
Term ends Jul 8, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
199
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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