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US 7,610,285 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 27, 2017 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Jettee, Inc.
Filed Sep 21, 2006 as application 11/524,831 · Granted Oct 27, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 246 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 27, 2017
2006 2027
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2006
No longer in force
Oct 27, 2017
Granted
Oct 27, 2009
Term would have run to
May 25, 2027
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
246
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.

Its term would have run to May 25, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 246 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 21, 2006, when this application, 11/524,831, was filedSep 21, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+246 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 25, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 27, 2017High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 27, 2017High confidence

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US 7,610,285this patent
Oct 2017
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US 7,865,873In force
Aug 2029
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US 9,122,750Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2019
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 21, 2006
Reel 18332, frame 442
Zoellner, Keith; Lee, Peter; Might, BradStored IqAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 2, 2014
Reel 32590, frame 416
Stored IqInternational Business Machines CorporationNunc Pro Tunc Assignment
Jan 11, 2022
Reel 58616, frame 384
International Business Machines CorporationBreakwater Solutions LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 4, 2024
Reel 69124, frame 227
Breakwater Solutions, LLC; Repario Data, LLCJettee, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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