Term ended Jun 3, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 17, 2023
Held by Bot M8 LLC
Filed Oct 17, 2003 as application 10/686,567 · Granted Mar 4, 2008
Base term plus 595 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 3, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2003
Oct 17, 2003
Term ended
Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025
Granted
Mar 4, 2008
Mar 4, 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
595
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 595 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 Oct 17, 2003, when this application, 10/686,567, was filed | Oct 17, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +595 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 3, 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 | Jun 3, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,377,852 | Term ended Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 7,258,612 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,338,363 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 7,497,777 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 7,664,988 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,095,990 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
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 22, 2004 Reel 15124, frame 99 | Okada, Kazuo | Aruze Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 23, 2009 Reel 23691, frame 877 | Aruze Corporation (Aruze Kabushiki Kaisha) | Universal Entertainment Corporation | Change of Name |
| Dec 6, 2016 Reel 40823, frame 741 | Universal Entertainment Corporation | Bot M8 LLC | Patent Purchase Agreement |
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 595 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
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.