Term ended Sep 21, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 27, 2022
Filed Jan 16, 2004 as application 10/759,782 · Granted Nov 24, 2009
Base term plus 787 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 21, 2024
2002
2026
Clock starts
Jul 27, 2002
Jul 27, 2002
Term ended
Sep 21, 2024
Sep 21, 2024
Granted
Nov 24, 2009
Nov 24, 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
787
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.
155
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 787 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 Jul 27, 2002, when application 10/207,677, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 16, 2004) | Jul 27, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +787 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 21, 2024 | 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 | Sep 21, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,102,615 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 7,421,471 | Term ended no later than Sep 2025 | no later than Sep 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2003/022130 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,613,310 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 7,883,415 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 7,623,115 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,970,147 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2004/025660 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 155 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2004 Reel 14906, frame 993 | Marks, Richard L. | Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 26, 2011 Reel 27445, frame 657 | Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. | Sony Network Entertainment Platform Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 27, 2011 Reel 27481, frame 351 | Sony Network Entertainment Platform Inc. | Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 1, 2016 Reel 39239, frame 356 | Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. | Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 787 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
159
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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