Term ends Dec 22, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 26, 2027
Held by Sitnet, LLC
Filed Oct 26, 2007 as application 11/924,706 · Granted Oct 12, 2010
Base term plus 423 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2028
Clock starts
Oct 26, 2007
Oct 26, 2007
Term ends
Dec 22, 2028
Dec 22, 2028
Granted
Oct 12, 2010
Oct 12, 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
423
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.
34
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 423 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 Oct 26, 2007, when this application, 11/924,706, was filed | Oct 26, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +423 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 22, 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 | Dec 22, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,711,475 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,045,455 | In force no later than Jul 2030 | no later than Jul 2030 |
| US 8,069,202 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,036,632 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,826,139 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 7,812,717 | this patent Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 8,249,932 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 8,000,893 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
8 of 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2008 Reel 20363, frame 684 | Cona, Thomas; Rose, Bruce L. | Resource Consortium Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2019 Reel 50091, frame 297 | Resource Consortium Limited | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Re-Domestication and Entity Conversion |
| Nov 2, 2022 Reel 61630, frame 693 | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Sitnet, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2028
Term ends Dec 22, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 423 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
46
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.