Term ended Oct 31, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 17, 2025
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed May 17, 2005 as application 11/132,072 · Granted Sep 8, 2009
Base term plus 532 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 31, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 2005
May 17, 2005
Term ended
Oct 31, 2026
Oct 31, 2026
Granted
Sep 8, 2009
Sep 8, 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
532
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.
2
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 532 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 May 17, 2005, when this application, 11/132,072, was filed | May 17, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +532 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 31, 2026 | 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 | Oct 31, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,587,671 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,255,795 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2006 Reel 17483, frame 892 | Saft, Keith; Crowley, Matthew W. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2006 Reel 17484, frame 97 | ArcSoft, Inc. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2006 Reel 17484, frame 136 | Su, Yingfeng | ArcSoft, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 16, 2006 Reel 17635, frame 526 | Saft, Keith; Crowley, Matthew W. | Palm, Inc. | Re-Record to Correct the Execution Date of the Second Assignor, Previously Recorded on Reel 017483 Frame 0892. |
| Dec 27, 2007 Reel 20300, frame 811 | Palm, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Jul 6, 2010 Reel 24630, frame 474 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Palm, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 28, 2010 Reel 25204, frame 809 | Palm, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2013 Reel 30341, frame 459 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 18, 2013 Reel 31837, frame 659 | Palm, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 18, 2013 Reel 31837, frame 544 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 28, 2014 Reel 32177, frame 210 | Hewlett-Packard Company; Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.; Palm, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 532 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
207
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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