Term ended Jun 15, 2020 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2018
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed Feb 11, 2005 as application 11/056,022 · Granted Mar 25, 2008
Base term plus 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 15, 2020
1998
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 1998
Dec 30, 1998
Term ended
Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020
Granted
Mar 25, 2008
Mar 25, 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
533
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.
28
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 533 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Dec 30, 1998, when application 09/223,129, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 11, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 30, 2018 | 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 | +533 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 15, 2020 | 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 15, 2020 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,654,768 | Term ended Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| US 7,296,036 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2019 | Nov 2019 |
| US 7,509,349 | Term ended no later than Dec 2020 | no later than Dec 2020 |
| US 7,349,907 | this patent Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| Application PCT/US2005/021031 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/003088 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,813,725 | Term ended Dec 2020 | Dec 2020 |
| Application PCT/US2006/009262 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2005 Reel 16473, frame 786 | Celik, Feyzi | Onepin, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 27, 2012 Reel 28118, frame 192 | Onepin, Inc. | Lupine Investments LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 24, 2015 Reel 36644, frame 96 | Lupine Investments LLC | Xenogenic Development Limited Liability Company | Merger |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Note
The 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
119
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.