Term ended Jan 9, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 14, 2023
Filed Feb 14, 2003 as application 10/367,178 · Granted Sep 22, 2009
Base term plus 695 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 9, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Feb 14, 2003
Feb 14, 2003
Term ended
Jan 9, 2025
Jan 9, 2025
Granted
Sep 22, 2009
Sep 22, 2009
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
695
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.
3
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 695 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 Feb 14, 2003, when this application, 10/367,178, was filed | Feb 14, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +695 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 9, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 9, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,593,361 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,715,336 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| Application 12/070,759 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2004 Reel 15350, frame 765 | Perlman, Stephen G. | Rearden Studios, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 7, 2005 Reel 16229, frame 29 | Rearden Studios, Inc. | Rearden, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 22, 2006 Reel 18200, frame 563 | Rearden, Inc. | Rearden LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2007 Reel 19767, frame 456 | Rearden LLC | Onlive, Inc. ( a California Corporation) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 17, 2007 Reel 19843, frame 725 | Onlive, Inc. (a California Corporation) | Onlive, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) | Merger |
| Aug 29, 2012 Reel 28884, frame 120 | Onlive, Inc. | Insolvency Services Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2012 Reel 28912, frame 53 | Insolvency Services Group, Inc. | OL2, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35315, frame 949 | Rearden, Inc. | Stephen G. Perlman Revocable Trust Udt Dated August 7, 1997 | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35315, frame 970 | Stephen G. Perlman Revocable Trust Udt Dated August 7, 1997 | Rearden LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35315, frame 980 | Rearden LLC | Onlive, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35354, frame 237 | OL2, Inc. | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2016 Reel 38617, frame 474 | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 30, 2020 Reel 53323, frame 567 | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 695 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
70
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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