Term ended Sep 28, 2021 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 28, 2021
Held by Rambus Inc.
Filed Jun 17, 2004 as application 10/870,365 · Granted Sep 5, 2006
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 28, 2021
2001
2026
Clock starts
Sep 28, 2001
Sep 28, 2001
Term ended
Sep 28, 2021
Sep 28, 2021
Granted
Sep 5, 2006
Sep 5, 2006
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 6,754,866, to Sep 28, 2021. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Sep 28, 2001, when application 09/967,389, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 17, 2004) | Sep 28, 2021 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 6,754,866) | resolves to Sep 28, 2021, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Sep 28, 2021 | 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 | Term ended 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2009 Reel 22597, frame 896 | Inapac Technology, Inc. | Rambus Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 6,754,866, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2006 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.