Term ended Nov 2, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 18, 2026
Held by Lotes Co., Ltd.
Filed Jan 18, 2006 as application 11/333,410 · Granted Aug 28, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Nov 2, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jan 18, 2006
Jan 18, 2006
Term ended
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025
Granted
Aug 28, 2007
Aug 28, 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 7,125,274.
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.
24
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 Jan 18, 2006, when this application, 11/333,410, was filed | Jan 18, 2026 | 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 7,125,274) | capped to Nov 2, 2025 | 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 | Nov 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,134,897 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2014 | Nov 2014 |
| US 7,195,508 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 7,147,478 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 7,059,886 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2014 | Jun 2014 |
| US 7,261,568 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,270,549 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,201,584 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2015 | Apr 2015 |
| US 7,234,955 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2015 | Jun 2015 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2006 Reel 17467, frame 994 | Ju, Ted; Chang, Wen-chung | Lotes 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 7,125,274.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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