Term ended Feb 15, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 17, 2023
Held by Fitbit, Inc.
Filed Dec 17, 2003 as application 10/738,376 · Granted May 16, 2006
Base term plus 60 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 15, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 17, 2003
Dec 17, 2003
Term ended
Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
Granted
May 16, 2006
May 16, 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
60
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.
24
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 60 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 Dec 17, 2003, when this application, 10/738,376, was filed | Dec 17, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +60 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 15, 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 | Feb 15, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 09/837,115 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 09/875,555 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,044,394 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| Application 10/800,821 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,472,829 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 7,543,739 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,246,752 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,641,124 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 2003 Reel 14812, frame 327 | Brown, Kerry Dennis | Quecard, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 10, 2007 Reel 19801, frame 884 | Brown, Kerry | Queuecard, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Name of the Assignee on the Notice of Recordation of Assignment Document Previously Recorded on Reel 014812 Frame 0327. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of the Entire Interest. |
| Sep 12, 2007 Reel 19819, frame 374 | Queuecard, Inc. | Qsecure, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Apr 4, 2014 Reel 32609, frame 559 | Qsecure, Inc. | Coin, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2016 Reel 38636, frame 267 | Coin, Inc. | Fitbit, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 60 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
356
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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