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Method and Apparatus for Use in Provisioning Resources for a Backhaul Link

US 7,450,948 Term ended
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Term ended Oct 30, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jan 15, 2004 as application 10/758,374 · Granted Nov 11, 2008
Base term plus 1019 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Oct 30, 2026
2004 2026
Clock starts
Jan 15, 2004
Term ended
Oct 30, 2026
Granted
Nov 11, 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
1,019
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.
20
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 1019 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

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 15, 2004, when this application, 10/758,374, was filedJan 15, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1019 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 30, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 30, 2026High confidence

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Application 10/235,001Abandoned
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Application 10/299,146Abandoned
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US 7,272,393Lapsed on the fee record
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Application 10/811,342Abandoned
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US 7,215,944Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,036,665Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,233,907Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2016
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8 of 20 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 15, 2004
Reel 14900, frame 918
Argyropoulos, Yiannis; Barghouthi, Ramzi; Mostafa, AymanCingular Wireless, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 25, 2005
Reel 16480, frame 826
Cingular Wireless, LLCCingular Wireless II, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 13, 2006
Reel 17159, frame 164
Cingular Wireless II, Inc.Cingular Wireless II, LLCCertificate of Conversion

Sources

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