Term ended Sep 30, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 9, 2024
Held by Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
Filed Apr 9, 2004 as application 10/821,388 · Granted Jul 24, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Sep 30, 2022
2004
2026
Clock starts
Apr 9, 2004
Apr 9, 2004
Term ended
Sep 30, 2022
Sep 30, 2022
Granted
Jul 24, 2007
Jul 24, 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.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,184,066.
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.
8
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 resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 9, 2004, when this application, 10/821,388, was filed | Apr 9, 2024 | 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 7,184,066) | capped to Sep 30, 2022 | 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 30, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,248,268 | this patent Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Application PCT/US2005/010022 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,920,154 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 7,876,341 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,018,476 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 7,598,965 | Term ended no later than Apr 2024 | no later than Apr 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2008/056241 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2008/059916 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 29, 2004 Reel 14576, frame 601 | Brown Elliott, Candice Hellen; Higgins, Michael Francis | Clairvoyante Laboratories, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 24, 2004 Reel 14663, frame 597 | Clairvoyante Laboratories, Inc. | Clairvoyante, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 31, 2008 Reel 20723, frame 613 | Clairvoyante, Inc. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 25, 2012 Reel 29015, frame 710 | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | Samsung Display Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,184,066.
Citations
91
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.
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