Term ended no later than Aug 19, 2025 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 27, 2025
Held by Ericsson AB
Filed Dec 9, 2013 as application 14/101,238 · Granted May 24, 2016
Base term plus 204 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Aug 19, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 27, 2005
Jan 27, 2005
Ended no later than
Aug 19, 2025
Aug 19, 2025
Granted
May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016
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
204
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 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.
10
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 204 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Low. 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 Jan 27, 2005, when application 11/045,196, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +204 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 19, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Aug 19, 2025 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,130,263 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
| US 7,573,814 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2017 | Aug 2017 |
| US 7,477,642 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,554,949 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,588,742 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 8,599,849 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,350,646 | this patent no later than Aug 2025 | no later than Aug 2025 |
| US 9,860,163 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
8 of 10 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 204 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Aug 19, 2025. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.