Term ends Mar 7, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Wi-LAN Inc.

Filed Feb 28, 2022 as application 17/682,717 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Base term plus 362 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 7, 2027

2007 2027

Clock starts
Mar 7, 2007

Term ends
Mar 7, 2027

Granted
Jan 7, 2025

base term 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

362

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 9,854,577.

None due

Maintenance fees

This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.

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 362 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 Mar 7, 2007, when application 11/683,314, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2022)	Mar 7, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+362 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 3, 2028	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,854,577)	capped to Mar 7, 2027	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	No maintenance fee can end the term early	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 7, 2027	High confidence

This family

US 8,130,699	In force Jul 2030	Jul 2030
Application PCT/US2008/055456	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,167,560	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027
US 9,344,998	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027
US 9,854,577	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027
Application 15/843,499	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 12,192,124	this patent Mar 2027	Mar 2027
Application 19/010,879	Pending not computed	not computed

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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

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What's changing

Mar 2027

Term ends Mar 7, 2027. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 362 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 9,854,577.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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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

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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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