Term ended Dec 20, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 18, 2024
Held by Inventio AG
Filed Mar 18, 2004 as application 10/804,243 · Granted Jan 29, 2008
Base term plus 277 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 20, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 18, 2004
Mar 18, 2004
Term ended
Dec 20, 2024
Dec 20, 2024
Granted
Jan 29, 2008
Jan 29, 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
277
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.
23
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 277 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 Mar 18, 2004, when this application, 10/804,243, was filed | Mar 18, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +277 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 20, 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 | Dec 20, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,863,160 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2017 | Mar 2017 |
| US 7,207,550 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2011 | Apr 2011 |
| US 7,185,482 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2015 | Mar 2015 |
| US 7,128,190 | Term ended no later than Jan 2025 | no later than Jan 2025 |
| US 7,182,174 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,201,256 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 7,237,655 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2015 | Jul 2015 |
| US 7,322,445 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2004 Reel 15120, frame 593 | Kocher, Johannes; Mc Govern, Eamon | Inventio AG | 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.
Free plan: 3 watched companies. Pro: unlimited.
Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.
What's changing
Note
The 277 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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.