Term ends Oct 29, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 29, 2030
Held by Pantech Corporation
Filed Aug 3, 2020 as application 16/983,920 · Granted Oct 4, 2022
Base term plus 136 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2010
Oct 29, 2010
Term ends
Oct 29, 2030
Oct 29, 2030
Granted
Oct 4, 2022
Oct 4, 2022
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
136
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 10,736,084, US 8,538,411, US 9,131,482.
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.
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 136 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Oct 29, 2010, when application 12/916,203, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 3, 2020) | Oct 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +136 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 14, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,736,084, US 8,538,411, US 9,131,482) | capped to Oct 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 29, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,538,411 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,131,482 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,392,582 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 9,265,034 | In force no later than Jun 2031 | no later than Jun 2031 |
| US 10,299,251 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 10,736,084 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 11,463,995 | this patent Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 11,765,727 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
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
Oct 2030
Term ends Oct 29, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 136 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 10,736,084, US 8,538,411, US 9,131,482.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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