Term ends Nov 17, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 14, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Cymer, LLC
Filed Oct 31, 2007 as application 11/982,103 · Granted Jan 5, 2010
Base term plus 64 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Sep 14, 2006
Sep 14, 2006
Term ends
Nov 17, 2026
Nov 17, 2026
Granted
Jan 5, 2010
Jan 5, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
64
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.
23
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 64 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Sep 14, 2006, when applications 11/521,833, 11/521,834, 11/521,835, 11/521,858, 11/521,860, 11/521,904, 11/521,905, 11/521,906 and 11/522,052, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 14, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +64 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 17, 2026 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 17, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/522,052 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/521,835 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,885,309 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 7,822,092 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,999,915 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 7,746,913 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 7,920,616 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,778,302 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2008 Reel 20784, frame 328 | Brown, Daniel J.w.; Partlo, William N.; Sandstrom, Richard L. | Cymer, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 12, 2014 Reel 32416, frame 794 | Cymer, Inc. | Cymer, LLC | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 17, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 64 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
48
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.