Lapsed Jul 7, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 21, 2007 as application 11/751,628 · Granted Jul 7, 2009

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

Lapsed Jul 7, 2021

2003 2026

Clock starts
Mar 5, 2003

No longer in force
Jul 7, 2021

Granted
Jul 7, 2009

Term would have run to
Mar 5, 2023

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

182

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Capped

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,221,287.

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.

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 Mar 5, 2023: its 20-year base term plus 182 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 5, 2003, when application 10/379,967, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 21, 2007)	Mar 5, 2023	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+182 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 3, 2023	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,221,287)	capped to Mar 5, 2023	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Jul 7, 2021	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 7, 2021	High confidence

This family

US 6,989,765	Term ended Oct 2023	Oct 2023
US 7,610,145	In force May 2028	May 2028
US 7,161,497	Term ended Mar 2023	Mar 2023
US 7,221,287	Term ended Mar 2023	Mar 2023
US 7,508,321	Term ended Mar 2023	Mar 2023
US 7,375,649	Term ended Apr 2023	Apr 2023
US 7,557,730	this patent Jul 2021	Jul 2021
US 7,702,452	Term ended no later than Jul 2024	no later than Jul 2024

8 of 48 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
Jan 23, 2009 Reel 22150, frame 740	Gueziec, Andre	Triangle Software LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 2, 2013 Reel 31696, frame 793	Triangle Software LLC	1836549 Ontario Limited C/O Pelmorex Media Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 2, 2013 Reel 31745, frame 861	1836549 Ontario Limited C/O Pelmorex Media Inc.	Pelmorex Canada Inc.	Change of Name
Jan 23, 2017 Reel 41069, frame 953	Pelmorex Canada, Inc.	Muddy River, Series 97 of Allied Security Trust I	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 31, 2018 Reel 45204, frame 800	Muddy River, Series 97 of Allied Security Trust I	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 6, 2018 Reel 45853, frame 418	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Jul 26, 2018 Reel 49259, frame 64	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as Administrative Agent	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Property Number Previously Recorded at Reel: 45853 Frame: 418. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Oct 18, 2019 Reel 50767, frame 109	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Mar 10, 2021 Reel 55547, frame 404	Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as Administrative Agent	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 11, 2024 Reel 69133, frame 167	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as Administrative Agent	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement (TERM Loan) at Reel 050767, Frame 0076
Oct 3, 2024 Reel 69110, frame 508	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Administrative Agent	Uber Technologies, Inc.	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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Note

The 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Disclaimer cap

This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,221,287.

Citations

158

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% 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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