Term ended Feb 6, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 6, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Apr 7, 2025.
Held by Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
Filed Mar 18, 2015 as application 14/661,296 · Granted Feb 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Feb 6, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 6, 2004
Feb 6, 2004
Term ended
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024
Granted
Feb 28, 2017
Feb 28, 2017
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,013,976, to Feb 6, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
6
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Medium. 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 6, 2004, when application 10/774,069, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 18, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 6, 2024 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,013,976) | resolves to Feb 6, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Apr 7, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 6, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 10/774,069 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,830,786 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 7,719,960 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 9,013,976 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 9,584,404 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2016 Reel 40269, frame 987 | Atlas, Alia Karin; Torvi, Raveendra | Avici Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 10, 2016 Reel 40280, frame 234 | Avici Systems Inc. | Soapstone Networks Inc. | Merger |
| Nov 14, 2016 Reel 40311, frame 857 | Soapstone Networks, Inc. | Futurewei Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,013,976, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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