Lapsed Jul 3, 2015 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 1, 2024
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Inventio AG
Filed Mar 1, 2004 as application 10/790,581 · Granted Jul 3, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 632 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 3, 2015
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2004
Mar 1, 2004
No longer in force
Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015
Granted
Jul 3, 2007
Jul 3, 2007
Term would have run to
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
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
632
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
23
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 23, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 632 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 1, 2004, when this application, 10/790,581, was filed | Mar 1, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +632 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 23, 2025 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 3, 2015 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 3, 2015 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,863,160 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2017 | Mar 2017 |
| US 7,207,550 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2011 | Apr 2011 |
| US 7,185,482 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2015 | Mar 2015 |
| US 7,128,190 | Term ended no later than Jan 2025 | no later than Jan 2025 |
| US 7,182,174 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,201,256 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 7,237,655 | this patent Jul 2015 | Jul 2015 |
| US 7,322,445 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2004 Reel 15054, frame 730 | Kocher, Johannes | Inventio AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 632 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
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.
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.