Term ended Oct 13, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 2, 2023
Held by Pantech Wireless, LLC
Filed Dec 2, 2003 as application 10/725,779 · Granted Nov 6, 2007
Base term plus 681 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 13, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 2, 2003
Dec 2, 2003
Term ended
Oct 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025
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
681
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.
6
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 681 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 Dec 2, 2003, when this application, 10/725,779, was filed | Dec 2, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +681 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 13, 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 | Oct 13, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,293,217 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 8,074,143 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,359,520 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 8,788,920 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 9,065,486 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| Application 15/623,258 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 2, 2004 Reel 14684, frame 352 | Pietraski, Philip J.; Sternberg, Gregory S. | InterDigital Technology Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 22, 2016 Reel 38060, frame 845 | InterDigital Technology Corporation | InterDigital Holdings, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Mar 22, 2016 Reel 38062, frame 1 | InterDigital Holdings, Inc. | InterDigital, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Mar 22, 2016 Reel 38065, frame 507 | InterDigital, Inc. | DST Holdings, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| May 17, 2016 Reel 38621, frame 287 | InterDigital Technology Corporation | InterDigital Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2016 Reel 38621, frame 301 | InterDigital Holdings, Inc. | InterDigital, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2016 Reel 38621, frame 347 | InterDigital, Inc. | DST Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 5, 2016 Reel 39356, frame 166 | DST Holdings, Inc. | Signal Trust for Wireless Innovation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 29, 2021 Reel 55170, frame 866 | Signal Trust for Wireless Innovation | RNB Wireless LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2021 Reel 56682, frame 95 | RNB Wireless LLC | Pantech Wireless, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 681 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
28
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.