Term ended Apr 15, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 16, 2025
Held by Adidas AG
Filed Aug 16, 2005 as application 11/161,766 · Granted Aug 19, 2008
Base term plus 393 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Apr 15, 2024
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 16, 2005
Aug 16, 2005
Term ended
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Granted
Aug 19, 2008
Aug 19, 2008
base term
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
393
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,135,227.
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.
38
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 393 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Aug 16, 2005, when this application, 11/161,766, was filed | Aug 16, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +393 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 13, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,135,227) | capped to Apr 15, 2024 | 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 | Apr 15, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,135,227 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 7,725,152 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,381,187 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 7,715,897 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 7,308,294 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 7,413,802 | this patent Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 7,560,671 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,504,127 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
8 of 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 31, 2008 Reel 20449, frame 524 | Karayianni, Eleni; Coulston, George W.; Micka, Thomas A. | Textronics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2018 Reel 45691, frame 806 | Textronics, Inc. | Adidas AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 393 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,135,227.
Citations
31
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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