Term ended Oct 23, 2023 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by SAP SE

Filed Apr 30, 2002 as application 10/136,852 · Granted Jun 19, 2007

Base term plus 541 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Oct 23, 2023

2002 2026

Clock starts
Apr 30, 2002

Term ended
Oct 23, 2023

Granted
Jun 19, 2007

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

541

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.

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 541 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 Apr 30, 2002, when this application, 10/136,852, was filed	Apr 30, 2022	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+541 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Oct 23, 2023	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	Oct 23, 2023	High confidence

This family

US 7,151,453	Term ended Sep 2024	Sep 2024
US 7,233,958	this patent Oct 2023	Oct 2023
US 6,681,990	Term ended May 2022	May 2022
US 7,290,708	Term ended Feb 2026	Feb 2026
US 6,901,304	Term ended Mar 2023	Mar 2023
US 6,843,415	Term ended May 2022	May 2022
US 7,969,306	In force Aug 2029	Aug 2029
US 8,019,740	Term ended Dec 2024	Dec 2024

8 of 12 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
Oct 20, 2003 Reel 14057, frame 818	Weng, Jie; Lin, Tao	SAP Aktiengesellschaft	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 26, 2014 Reel 33625, frame 334	SAP AG	SAP SE	Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Note

The 541 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2007 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.

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