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US 7,505,079 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 17, 2017 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Apr 5, 2005 as application 11/098,382 · Granted Mar 17, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 17, 2017
2005 2026
Clock starts
Apr 5, 2005
No longer in force
Mar 17, 2017
Granted
Mar 17, 2009
Term would have run to
Oct 11, 2026
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
554
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.
18
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 Oct 11, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 554 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 5, 2005, when this application, 11/098,382, was filedApr 5, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+554 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 11, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 17, 2017High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 17, 2017High confidence

This family

Application 09/987,707Abandoned
not computed
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Application 11/057,154Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,505,079this patent
Mar 2017
Mar 2017
US 7,868,912Term ended
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
US 9,892,606In force
Feb 2027
Feb 2027
US 8,711,217Term ended
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
Application PCT/US2006/002700PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2006/012556PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 18 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
Apr 5, 2005
Reel 16453, frame 406
Ariga, KazutoCanon Kabushiki KaishaAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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