Term ended Aug 9, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 9, 2025
Held by Greenlee Tools, Inc.
Filed Aug 9, 2005 as application 11/199,695 · Granted May 15, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 9, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2005
Aug 9, 2005
Term ended
Aug 9, 2025
Aug 9, 2025
Granted
May 15, 2007
May 15, 2007
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.
2
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
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 9, 2005, when this application, 11/199,695, was filed | Aug 9, 2025 | 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 | Aug 9, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,216,848 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 7,926,788 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2005 Reel 16634, frame 904 | Plummer, Jeffrey J. | Greenlee Textron Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2006 Reel 18654, frame 350 | Greenlee Textron Inc. | Textron Innovations Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 11, 2018 Reel 47216, frame 65 | Textron Innovations Inc. | Greenlee Textron Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 31, 2018 Reel 47915, frame 286 | Greenlee Textron Inc. | Greenlee Tools, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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