Lapsed Jul 28, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 26, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Google LLC
Filed Jan 25, 2005 as application 11/043,695 · Granted Jul 28, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 353 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 28, 2021
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jul 26, 2004
Jul 26, 2004
No longer in force
Jul 28, 2021
Jul 28, 2021
Granted
Jul 28, 2009
Jul 28, 2009
Term would have run to
Jul 14, 2025
Jul 14, 2025
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
353
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.
6
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 14, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 353 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 Jul 26, 2004, when application 10/900,021, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 25, 2005) | Jul 26, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +353 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 14, 2025 | 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 Jul 28, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 28, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,580,921 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,567,959 | this patent Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| US 8,560,550 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,361,331 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 9,817,825 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 10,671,676 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2005 Reel 16685, frame 734 | Patterson, Anna K. | Google, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 2, 2017 Reel 44101, frame 610 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Note
The 353 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
168
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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