Term ended Dec 11, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 11, 2022
Held by Action Target Inc.
Filed Jun 5, 2006 as application 11/447,543 · Granted Mar 17, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 11, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 11, 2002
Dec 11, 2002
Term ended
Dec 11, 2022
Dec 11, 2022
Granted
Mar 17, 2009
Mar 17, 2009
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
14
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Dec 11, 2002, when application 10/317,025, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 5, 2006) | Dec 11, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Dec 11, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,194,944 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,275,748 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,306,230 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,503,250 | this patent Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,775,526 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,276,916 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,653,979 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,793,937 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2008 Reel 20889, frame 42 | Lambert, Spencer; Bateman, Kyle; Marshall, Thomas | Action Target, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 21, 2008 Reel 20976, frame 75 | Action Target Inc. | Action Target Acquisition Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 29, 2008 Reel 21006, frame 616 | Action Target Acquisition Corp. | BB&T Capital Partners/Windsor Mezzanine Fund, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Intellectual Property |
| Nov 27, 2013 Reel 31736, frame 870 | Action Target Inc.; Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. | Zions First National Bank | Security Agreement |
| Aug 25, 2016 Reel 39809, frame 509 | Action Target Acquisition Corp. | Action Target Inc. | Change of Name |
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.
Citations
41
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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