Term ended Aug 3, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 30, 2024
Held by Rearden, LLC
Filed Jul 30, 2004 as application 10/902,978 · Granted Aug 26, 2008
Base term plus 734 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 3, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jul 30, 2004
Jul 30, 2004
Term ended
Aug 3, 2026
Aug 3, 2026
Granted
Aug 26, 2008
Aug 26, 2008
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
734
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.
49
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 734 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 Jul 30, 2004, when this application, 10/902,978, was filed | Jul 30, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +734 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 3, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 3, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,885,354 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,418,053 | this patent Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2005/011033 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,711,030 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2006/041009 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,599,420 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,633,994 | Term ended no later than Jul 2024 | no later than Jul 2024 |
| US 7,636,381 | Term ended no later than Jul 2024 | no later than Jul 2024 |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2004 Reel 15375, frame 434 | Perlman, Stephen G.; Cotter, Tim | Rearden Studios, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2005 Reel 15792, frame 147 | Rearden Studios, Inc. | Rearden, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 14, 2007 Reel 19691, frame 660 | Rearden, Inc. | Stephen G. Perlman Revocable Trust | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 24, 2007 Reel 19745, frame 147 | Stephen G. Perlman Revocable Trust | Rearden, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 734 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
229
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
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