Term ended Jul 13, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 8, 2022
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed Oct 12, 2004 as application 10/961,075 · Granted Jun 8, 2010
Base term plus 1616 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 13, 2026
2002
2026
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2002
Feb 8, 2002
Term ended
Jul 13, 2026
Jul 13, 2026
Granted
Jun 8, 2010
Jun 8, 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
1,616
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.
13
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 1616 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Feb 8, 2002, when application 10/072,683, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 12, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 8, 2022 | 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 | +1616 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 13, 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 13, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,370,936 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 7,650,634 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2004/009607 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,734,752 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,209,756 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,959,197 | Term ended no later than Feb 2022 | no later than Feb 2022 |
| US 9,094,372 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 9,100,364 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2004 Reel 15884, frame 391 | Zuk, Nir; Mao, Yu Ming; Guruswamy, Kowsik | Juniper Networks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2026 Reel 76302, frame 450 | Juniper Networks, Inc. | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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Note
The 1616 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
70
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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