Term ended Nov 11, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 16, 2024
Held by Adidas AG
Filed Jan 16, 2004 as application 10/759,289 · Granted Nov 6, 2007
Base term plus 300 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 11, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jan 16, 2004
Jan 16, 2004
Term ended
Nov 11, 2024
Nov 11, 2024
Granted
Nov 6, 2007
Nov 6, 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
300
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.
27
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 300 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 Jan 16, 2004, when this application, 10/759,289, was filed | Jan 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +300 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 11, 2024 | 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 | Nov 11, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,292,867 | this patent Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 7,480,512 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 7,805,149 | Term ended no later than Dec 2024 | no later than Dec 2024 |
| US 7,941,160 | Term ended no later than Jun 2025 | no later than Jun 2025 |
| US 7,706,815 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,957,752 | Term ended no later than Dec 2025 | no later than Dec 2025 |
| Application 11/932,050 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,805,150 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
8 of 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2004 Reel 15475, frame 732 | Werner, Jon H.; Doyle, Scot | Bones in Motion, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2009 Reel 22970, frame 99 | Bones in Motion, Inc. | Adidas International, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2009 Reel 22970, frame 213 | Adidas International, Inc. | Adidas AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 300 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
370
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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