Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 12, 2012 (Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC).
Term ended Jul 2, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 12, 2025
Held by Belkin International, Inc.
Filed Apr 12, 2005 as application 11/105,063 · Granted Jul 3, 2007
Base term plus 81 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 2, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 12, 2005
Apr 12, 2005
Term ended
Jul 2, 2025
Jul 2, 2025
Granted
Jul 3, 2007
Jul 3, 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
81
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.
14
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 81 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 12, 2005, when this application, 11/105,063, was filed | Apr 12, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +81 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 2, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,240,111 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,607,618 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2017 | Oct 2017 |
| US 8,144,120 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2016 | Mar 2016 |
| US 7,318,750 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,510,420 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2017 | Mar 2017 |
| US 7,518,265 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| US 7,909,624 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2015 | Mar 2015 |
| US 7,568,029 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2005 Reel 16870, frame 951 | Vanharlingen, Brian; Leibow, Michael; Chen, Li-ter | Belkin Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2009 Reel 22846, frame 521 | Belkin Corporation | Belkin International, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 12, 2012 Reel 27844, frame 525 | Belkin International, Inc. | Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, as Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
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Note
The 81 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
70
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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