Also listed on Teamon Systems, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 26, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2026
Held by Malikie Innovations Limited
Filed Jun 27, 2006 as application 11/426,668 · Granted Sep 28, 2010
Base term plus 730 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2006
Jun 27, 2006
Term ends
Jun 26, 2028
Jun 26, 2028
Granted
Sep 28, 2010
Sep 28, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
730
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.
3
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 730 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 27, 2006, when this application, 11/426,668, was filed | Jun 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +730 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 26, 2028 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 26, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,805,489 | this patent Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,065,363 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,301,711 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
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 27, 2006 Reel 17850, frame 848 | Roberts, Aaron | Teamon Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 23, 2010 Reel 24869, frame 593 | Teamon Systems, Inc. | Research in Motion Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 23, 2010 Reel 24874, frame 260 | Teamon Systems, Inc. | Research in Motion Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Attach Schedule "A" with Confirmation and Assignment Previously Recorded on Reel 024869 Frame 0593. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignor's Interest. |
| Oct 22, 2014 Reel 34030, frame 941 | Research in Motion Limited | BlackBerry Limited | Change of Name |
| Jun 16, 2023 Reel 64104, frame 103 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2023 Reel 64269, frame 1 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2028
Term ends Jun 26, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 730 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
167
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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