Lapsed Sep 22, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 30, 2033
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Oct 18, 2017 as application 15/786,900 · Granted Sep 22, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 41 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Sep 22, 2024
2013
2033
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2013
Dec 30, 2013
No longer in force
Sep 22, 2024
Sep 22, 2024
Granted
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 2020
Term would have run to
Dec 30, 2033
Dec 30, 2033
base term
after the term ends
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
41
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,825,884.
0 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.
11
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 30, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 41 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 30, 2013, when application 14/144,270, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 18, 2017) | Dec 30, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +41 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 9, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,825,884) | capped to Dec 30, 2033 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 22, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 22, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,379,963 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 9,825,884 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2016/022118 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,009,273 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,785,169 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 10,749,800 | In force Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
| US 11,677,664 | In force Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
| US 11,824,796 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2017 Reel 43892, frame 674 | Hutchison, Guy Townsend; Gandhi, Sachin Ramesh; Daniel, Tsahi; Schmidt, Gerald; Fishman, Albert; White, Martin Leslie; Shah, Zubin | Cavium, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2018 Reel 47577, frame 653 | Cavium, Inc. | Cavium, LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 17, 2020 Reel 51948, frame 807 | Cavium, LLC | Cavium International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2020 Reel 53179, frame 320 | Cavium International | Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 41 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,825,884.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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