Term ended Mar 27, 2023 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 27, 2023
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Videolabs, Inc.
Filed Jun 15, 2006 as application 11/453,071 · Granted Dec 4, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Mar 27, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Mar 27, 2003
Mar 27, 2003
Term ended
Mar 27, 2023
Mar 27, 2023
Granted
Dec 4, 2007
Dec 4, 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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,308,143, to Mar 27, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
15
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 is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 27, 2003, when application PCT/JP2003/003794, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 15, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,308,143) | resolves to Mar 27, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 27, 2023 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,095,896 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 7,308,143 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,308,149 | Term ended no later than Mar 2023 | no later than Mar 2023 |
| US 7,308,144 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,305,134 | this patent Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,184,598 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 8,265,403 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,697,770 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2014 Reel 33033, frame 163 | Panasonic Corporation | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 2, 2015 Reel 36054, frame 104 | Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America | Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 15, 2023 Reel 64594, frame 535 | Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1 | Videolabs, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,308,143, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
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
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.