Term ended Jul 9, 2022 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Filed May 11, 2005 as application 11/126,271 · Granted Jan 1, 2008

Base term plus 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Jul 9, 2022

2001 2026

Clock starts
May 2, 2001

Term ended
Jul 9, 2022

Granted
Jan 1, 2008

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

433

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.

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 433 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 May 2, 2001, when application 09/845,769, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 11, 2005)	May 2, 2021	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+433 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jul 9, 2022	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	Jul 9, 2022	High confidence

This family

US 6,912,498	Term ended Apr 2022	Apr 2022
US 7,315,818	this patent Jul 2022	Jul 2022
US 8,019,324	Term ended Jul 2025	Jul 2025
US 7,957,975	Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023	Jun 2023
US 8,775,189	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022	Jul 2022
US 7,822,610	In force Jun 2029	Jun 2029
US 8,106,742	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030
US 8,103,509	In force Jul 2030	Jul 2030

8 of 19 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
Dec 6, 2005 Reel 16851, frame 772	Scansoft, Inc.	Nuance Communications, Inc.	Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Note

The 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

272

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2008 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.

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