Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 4, 2019 (Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.).
Lapsed Apr 8, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 24, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Parkervision, Inc.
Filed Aug 24, 2006 as application 11/508,989 · Granted Apr 8, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 93 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 8, 2020
2006
2026
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2006
Aug 24, 2006
No longer in force
Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020
Granted
Apr 8, 2008
Apr 8, 2008
Term would have run to
Nov 25, 2026
Nov 25, 2026
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
93
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
19
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 25, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 93 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Aug 24, 2006, when this application, 11/508,989, was filed | Aug 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +93 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 25, 2026 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 8, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 8, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,184,723 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019 | Feb 2019 |
| US 7,835,709 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,945,224 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 7,355,470 | this patent Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 |
| US 8,428,527 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 8,406,711 | In force no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
| US 7,526,261 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,351,870 | In force no later than Apr 2027 | no later than Apr 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 2007 Reel 18868, frame 470 | Sorrells, David F.; Rawlins, Gregory S.; Rawlins, Michael W. | Parkervision, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 4, 2019 Reel 47905, frame 316 | Parkervision Inc. | Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. | Security 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.
What's changing
Note
The 93 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
171
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
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