Lapsed Mar 30, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 14, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed Aug 23, 2006 as application 11/509,144 · Granted Mar 30, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 169 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 30, 2022
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jul 14, 2004
Jul 14, 2004
No longer in force
Mar 30, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
Granted
Mar 30, 2010
Mar 30, 2010
Term would have run to
Dec 30, 2024
Dec 30, 2024
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
169
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
46
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 Dec 30, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 169 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 14, 2004, when application 10/890,922, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 23, 2006) | Jul 14, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +169 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 30, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 30, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 30, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,041,020 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 7,642,561 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,940,910 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,688,953 | this patent Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 11/509,494 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,974,391 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| Application 11/509,136 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,783,310 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
8 of 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 2006 Reel 18483, frame 183 | Chatterjee, Saurav; Fullarton, Paul; Rana, Hemendra; Schramm, Steven D. | Orative Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 9, 2015 Reel 36767, frame 460 | Orative Corporation | Cisco Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 169 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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.