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Gestures for touch sensitive input devices

US 9,348,458 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed May 24, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Jan 31, 2005 as application 11/048,264 · Granted May 24, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 24, 2024
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jul 30, 2004
No longer in force
May 24, 2024
Granted
May 24, 2016
Term would have run to
Dec 15, 2024
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
138
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
90
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 Dec 15, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 138 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 30, 2004, when application 10/903,964, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 31, 2005)Jul 30, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+138 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 15, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 24, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 24, 2024High confidence

This family

US 6,888,536Term ended
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US 8,479,122Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2025
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US 7,760,187Term ended
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
US 7,339,580Term ended
Aug 2019
Aug 2019
US 8,239,784Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2024
Aug 2024
US 9,348,458this patent
May 2024
May 2024
US 7,599,044In force
Jul 2027
Jul 2027
Application PCT/US2005/025641PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 90 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 11, 2007
Reel 19265, frame 961
Apple Computer, Inc.Apple Inc.Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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