Term ended no later than Dec 31, 2022 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 31, 2022
Held by Deepwell IP LLC
Filed Jan 28, 2008 as application 12/011,665 · Granted Oct 27, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Ended no later than Dec 31, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 31, 2002
Dec 31, 2002
Ended no later than
Dec 31, 2022
Dec 31, 2022
Granted
Oct 27, 2009
Oct 27, 2009
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
10
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Dec 31, 2002, when application 10/334,272, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 28, 2008) | Dec 31, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium 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 | no later than Dec 31, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,936,898 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,098,512 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,332,763 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 7,211,478 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,645,664 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,323,367 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,608,897 | this patent no later than Dec 2022 | no later than Dec 2022 |
| US 9,251,865 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2009 Reel 22454, frame 522 | Transmeta Corporation | Transmeta LLC | Merger |
| Sep 22, 2009 Reel 23268, frame 771 | Transmeta LLC | Intellectual Venture Funding LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 29, 2015 Reel 36711, frame 160 | Intellectual Venture Funding LLC | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Merger |
| Oct 6, 2015 Reel 36797, frame 356 | Intellectual Ventures Funding LLC | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 036711 Frame: 0160. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Jul 19, 2021 Reel 56905, frame 392 | Intellectual Venture Funding LLC | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Merger |
| Feb 3, 2022 Reel 58881, frame 459 | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Intellecutal Ventures Assets 174 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 20, 2022 Reel 59649, frame 779 | Intellectual Ventures Assets 174 LLC | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 20, 2022 Reel 59654, frame 315 | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Deepwell IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Dec 31, 2022. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.