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Dynamic Reselection of CDMA Spreading Codes

US 6,567,393 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 20, 2011 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 27, 2001 as application 09/794,934 · Granted May 20, 2003
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 261 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 20, 2011
2001 2026
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2001
No longer in force
May 20, 2011
Granted
May 20, 2003
Term would have run to
Nov 15, 2021
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
261
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
42
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 Nov 15, 2021: its 20-year base term plus 261 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 27, 2001, when this application, 09/794,934, was filedFeb 27, 2021High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+261 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 15, 2021High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 20, 2011High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 20, 2011High confidence

This family

US 6,928,168Lapsed on the fee record
Aug 2017
Aug 2017
US 6,456,255Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2010
Sep 2010
US 6,567,393this patent
May 2011
May 2011
US 6,778,834Term ended
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
US 6,908,389Term ended
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 6,954,443Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2013
Oct 2013
US 6,496,140Term ended
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 6,907,568Term ended
Mar 2023
Mar 2023
8 of 42 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 1, 2001
Reel 11760, frame 579
Hamalainen, Seppo; Vepsalainen, JussiNokia Networks OyAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 23, 2008
Reel 20837, frame 781
Nokia CorporationNokia Siemens Networks OyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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