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US 7,631,191 Term ended
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Term ended no later than Mar 7, 2021 · Low confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jan 10, 2022.

Held by Authentixx LLC
Filed Jun 9, 2006 as application 11/423,340 · Granted Dec 8, 2009
Base term plus 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Ended no later than Mar 7, 2021
2000 2026
Clock starts
Sep 6, 2000
Ended no later than
Mar 7, 2021
Granted
Dec 8, 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
182
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 filingClock starts Sep 6, 2000, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jun 9, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 6, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+182 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 7, 2021High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Jan 10, 2022, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Mar 7, 2021Low confidence

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

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