Lapsed Mar 17, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 15, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Adidas AG
Filed Oct 26, 2006 as application 11/553,206 · Granted Mar 17, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 63 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 17, 2021
2004
2026
Clock starts
Apr 15, 2004
Apr 15, 2004
No longer in force
Mar 17, 2021
Mar 17, 2021
Granted
Mar 17, 2009
Mar 17, 2009
Term would have run to
Jun 17, 2024
Jun 17, 2024
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
63
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
Its term would have run to Jun 17, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 63 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 Apr 15, 2004, when application 10/825,498, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 26, 2006) | Apr 15, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +63 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 17, 2024 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 17, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 17, 2021 | 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 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 7,560,671 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,504,127 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2009 Reel 22194, frame 175 | Karayianni, Eleni; Consoli, Omero; Coulson, George W.; Regenstein, Klaus J. | Invista North America S.AR.L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2009 Reel 22194, frame 282 | Invista Technologies S. a R. L.; Invista North America S. a R. L. | Invista S. a R. L. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2009 Reel 22194, frame 347 | Invista S.A R.L. | 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 63 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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