Lapsed May 12, 2017 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 25, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Alverix, Inc.
Filed Oct 25, 2006 as application 11/588,038 · Granted May 12, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 254 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 12, 2017
2006
2027
Clock starts
Oct 25, 2006
Oct 25, 2006
No longer in force
May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017
Granted
May 12, 2009
May 12, 2009
Term would have run to
Jul 6, 2027
Jul 6, 2027
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
254
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.
17
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 Jul 6, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 254 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 Oct 25, 2006, when this application, 11/588,038, was filed | Oct 25, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +254 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 6, 2027 | 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 May 12, 2017 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 12, 2017 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/816,636 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/019,183 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/044,394 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,128,871 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 7,521,259 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 7,521,260 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,532,128 | this patent May 2017 | May 2017 |
| Application 12/409,877 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2006 Reel 18474, frame 443 | Petrilla, John F. | Avago Technologies, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2007 Reel 19128, frame 513 | Petrilla, John F. | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name and Address on a Document Previously Recorded on Reel 018474 Frame 0443. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignor's Interest. |
| May 15, 2008 Reel 20948, frame 582 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Alverix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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 254 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
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.
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
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