Lapsed Aug 26, 2016 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 6, 2022
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by STT Webos, Inc.
Filed Aug 6, 2002 as application 10/713,904 · Granted Aug 26, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 993 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 26, 2016
2002
2026
Clock starts
Aug 6, 2002
Aug 6, 2002
No longer in force
Aug 26, 2016
Aug 26, 2016
Granted
Aug 26, 2008
Aug 26, 2008
Term would have run to
Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025
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
993
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
32
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 Apr 25, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 993 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 6, 2002, when this application, 10/713,904, was filed | Aug 6, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +993 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 25, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 26, 2016 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 26, 2016 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,418,702 | this patent Aug 2016 | Aug 2016 |
| US 7,379,990 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 7,945,652 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,799,473 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,812,640 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| US 8,589,527 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| US 8,812,682 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,341,258 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
8 of 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2018 Reel 46538, frame 200 | TS Patents LLC | STT Webos, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2026 Reel 75137, frame 704 | STT Webos, Inc. (Texas) | STT Webos, Inc. (Delaware) | Reassignment |
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 993 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
33
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
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.