Term ended Aug 17, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 6, 2023
Held by Nice Ltd.
Filed Jun 15, 2005 as application 10/506,787 · Granted Jul 20, 2010
Base term plus 530 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 17, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Mar 6, 2003
Mar 6, 2003
Term ended
Aug 17, 2024
Aug 17, 2024
Granted
Jul 20, 2010
Jul 20, 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
530
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 530 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 6, 2003, when application PCT/IL2003/000185, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 15, 2005) | Mar 6, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +530 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 17, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 17, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,953,219 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,761,544 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,712,665 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 8,204,884 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
4 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2005 Reel 16691, frame 551 | Manasseh, Fredrick Mark; Ben-tov, Omri; Roberts, Martin | Nice Systems Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 18, 2016 Reel 40391, frame 483 | Nice-Systems Ltd. | Nice Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Dec 6, 2016 Reel 40821, frame 818 | Nice Ltd.; Nice Systems Inc.; AC2 Solutions, Inc.; Actimize Limited; Incontact, Inc.; Nexidia, Inc.; Nice Systems Technologies, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 25, 2026 Reel 75018, frame 663 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Nice Ltd.; Nice Systems Inc.; AC² Solutions, Inc.; Actimize Limited; Incontact, Inc.; Nexidia, Inc.; Nice Systems Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Nice Ltd. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Nice Systems Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | AC² Solutions, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Actimize Limited | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Incontact, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Nexidia, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
| Feb 25, 2026 reel/frame not recorded | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Nice Systems Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents Previously Recorded at Reel/Frame (040821/0818) |
Sources
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Note
The 530 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
188
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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