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US 7,730,009 Term ended
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Term ended Nov 2, 2024 · High confidence

Held by Zxibix Inc.
Filed May 17, 2006 as application 11/435,473 · Granted Jun 1, 2010
Base term plus 358 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Nov 2, 2024
2003 2026
Clock starts
Nov 10, 2003
Term ended
Nov 2, 2024
Granted
Jun 1, 2010
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
358
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.
36
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 358 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 Nov 10, 2003, when application 10/705,654, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 17, 2006)Nov 10, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+358 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 2, 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 orderNov 2, 2024High confidence

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US 7,730,009this patent
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8 of 36 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
Mar 16, 2013
Reel 30024, frame 348
Higgins, Linda Shawn; Heidenreich, James RalphZxibix Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 25, 2020
Reel 54203, frame 104
Zxibix Inc.Zxibix Inc.Notification of Current Address for Assignee

Sources

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

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