Term ended Mar 7, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 17, 2022
Filed Jul 8, 2003 as application 10/615,108 · Granted Oct 9, 2007
USPTO first gave this application the number US 7,242,906 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term plus 233 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 7, 2023
2002
2026
Clock starts
Jul 17, 2002
Jul 17, 2002
Term ended
Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
Granted
Oct 9, 2007
Oct 9, 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
233
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.
22
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 233 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 Jul 17, 2002, when application 10/197,367, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2003) | Jul 17, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +233 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 7, 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 | Mar 7, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 29/164,065 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 6,591,085 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 7,280,802 | this patent Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Application 10/621,500 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US D531,158 | Term ended Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| Application 10/780,329 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2005/005025 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US D545,812 | Term ended Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2003 Reel 14679, frame 591 | Grady, Jeff | Netalog, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 14, 2006 Reel 18515, frame 349 | Netalog, Inc. | Suntrust Bank, As Administrative Agent | Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2007 Reel 18837, frame 29 | Netalog, Inc. | Monroe Capital Advisors, LLC | Security Agreement |
| May 22, 2007 Reel 19323, frame 565 | Monroe Capital Advisors, LLC | Netalog, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 25, 2007 Reel 19466, frame 783 | Suntrust Bank, As Administrative Agent | Netalog, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 9, 2011 Reel 25775, frame 220 | Netalog, Inc. | Philips Electronics North America, Corporation | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 233 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.
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
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