Term ended Apr 25, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 12, 2024
Held by ABL IP Holding LLC
Filed Mar 12, 2004 as application 10/799,741 · Granted May 2, 2006
Base term plus 44 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 25, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 12, 2004
Mar 12, 2004
Term ended
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Granted
May 2, 2006
May 2, 2006
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
44
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
6
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 44 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Mar 12, 2004, when this application, 10/799,741, was filed | Mar 12, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +44 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 25, 2024 | 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 | Apr 25, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,038,400 | this patent Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 7,410,276 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,436,675 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 8,079,556 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 7,798,824 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2005 Reel 16512, frame 389 | Rimmer, Philip John; Sherrington, Carole Frances | Juno Manufacturing, Inc.; Juice Technology | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 2, 2005 reel/frame not recorded | Rimmer, Philip John; Sherrington, Carole Frances | Juno Manufacturing, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 2, 2005 reel/frame not recorded | Rimmer, Philip John; Sherrington, Carole Frances | Juice Technology | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2013 Reel 31148, frame 301 | Juice Technology Limited | Isotera Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 23, 2015 Reel 37154, frame 961 | Juno Manufacturing, Inc.; Juno Manufacturing II, LLC; Juno Manufacturing II, LLC | Juno Manufacturing, LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| Mar 28, 2016 Reel 38274, frame 622 | Juno Manufacturing, LLC | Juno Lighting, LLC | Merger |
| Mar 28, 2016 Reel 38274, frame 804 | Juno Lighting, LLC | Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. | Merger |
| Jun 16, 2016 Reel 39050, frame 936 | Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc. | ABL IP Holding LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 44 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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