Term ended Nov 26, 2022 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 17, 2021
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Fitbit, Inc.
Filed Apr 14, 2006 as application 11/404,660 · Granted Jun 9, 2009
Base term plus 588 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 26, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Apr 17, 2001
Apr 17, 2001
Term ended
Nov 26, 2022
Nov 26, 2022
Granted
Jun 9, 2009
Jun 9, 2009
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
588
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.
24
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 588 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 17, 2001, when application 09/837,115, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 14, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 17, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +588 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 26, 2022 | 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 | Nov 26, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 09/837,115 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 09/875,555 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,044,394 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| Application 10/800,821 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,472,829 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 7,543,739 | this patent Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,246,752 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,641,124 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2006 Reel 18188, frame 386 | Brown, Kerry D.; Pariseau, David Kevin; Chatelain, Daniel | Qsecure, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2014 Reel 32609, frame 559 | Qsecure, Inc. | Coin, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 18, 2016 Reel 38636, frame 267 | Coin, Inc. | Fitbit, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 588 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
574
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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