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Method and an Associated Device for Setting Up a Transfer of Data Between Two Communications Devices

US 7,643,470 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 5, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 21, 2004 as application 10/945,837 · Granted Jan 5, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 665 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 5, 2018
2004 2026
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2004
No longer in force
Jan 5, 2018
Granted
Jan 5, 2010
Term would have run to
Jul 18, 2026
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
665
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.
25
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 Jul 18, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 665 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 21, 2004, when this application, 10/945,837, was filedSep 21, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+665 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 18, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 5, 2018High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 5, 2018High confidence

This family

US 7,352,860Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2016
Apr 2016
US 7,590,846Term ended
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
Application 10/780,180Abandoned
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Application 10/919,199Abandoned
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US 7,643,470this patent
Jan 2018
Jan 2018
US 7,123,205Term ended
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
US 7,636,427In force
Apr 2027
Apr 2027
Application 11/083,184Abandoned
not computed
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8 of 25 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 6, 2004
Reel 16047, frame 855
Herledan, Frederic; Provost, HerveFrance TelecomAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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