Term ended Nov 27, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 27, 2022
Held by Rambus Inc.
Filed Jun 27, 2003 as application 10/608,613 · Granted Apr 19, 2005
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Nov 27, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Nov 27, 2002
Nov 27, 2002
Term ended
Nov 27, 2022
Nov 27, 2022
Granted
Apr 19, 2005
Apr 19, 2005
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
45
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. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Nov 27, 2002, when application 10/305,635, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 27, 2003) | Nov 27, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 27, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,754,866 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Application 10/205,883 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 6,812,726 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 6,882,171 | this patent Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,006,940 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2018 | Feb 2018 |
| US 7,139,945 | Term ended no later than Feb 2021 | no later than Feb 2021 |
| US 7,103,815 | Term ended Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 7,240,254 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2019 | Jul 2019 |
8 of 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2003 Reel 14282, frame 823 | Ong, Adrian E. | Inapac Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 28, 2009 Reel 22597, frame 896 | Inapac Technology, Inc. | Rambus Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
59
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2005 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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