Term ends Mar 23, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 23, 2027
Held by Fci
Filed Feb 19, 2013 as application 13/770,425 · Granted Mar 25, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Mar 23, 2007
Mar 23, 2007
Term ends
Mar 23, 2027
Mar 23, 2027
Granted
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 23, 2007, when application 11/726,936, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 19, 2013) | Mar 23, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Mar 23, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,503,804 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2007/024552 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,497,736 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2007/025910 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,762,843 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,096,832 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,382,521 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,678,860 | this patent Mar 2027 | Mar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2013 Reel 30057, frame 784 | Minich, Steven E.; Johnescu, Douglas M.; Buck, Jonathan E. | Fci Americas Technology LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 21, 2013 Reel 30057, frame 863 | Sercu, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef | Fci | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2027
Term ends Mar 23, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Citations
100
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.