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Switching Between Bit-Streams in Video Transmission

US 7,706,447 Term ended
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Term ended Jun 9, 2024 · High confidence

Filed Jan 9, 2004 as application 10/250,838 · Granted Apr 27, 2010
Base term plus 888 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jun 9, 2024
2002 2026
Clock starts
Jan 3, 2002
Term ended
Jun 9, 2024
Granted
Apr 27, 2010
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
888
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.
7
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 888 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 3, 2002, when application PCT/FI2002/000004, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 9, 2004)Jan 3, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+888 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 9, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 9, 2024High confidence

This family

Application 09/827,796Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 6,765,963Term ended
Sep 2022
Sep 2022
US 6,920,175Term ended
no later than Mar 2023
no later than Mar 2023
US 7,706,447this patent
Jun 2024
Jun 2024
US 7,693,220In force
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 7,477,689Term ended
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
6 of 7 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
Jan 9, 2004
Reel 15007, frame 646
Karczewicz, Marta; Kurceren, RagipNokia CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 9, 2015
Reel 35602, frame 133
Nokia CorporationNokia Technologies OyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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