Term ends Dec 11, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 8, 2025
Held by Snaptrack, Inc.
Filed Jan 8, 2008 as application 11/659,161 · Granted Oct 26, 2010
Base term plus 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jun 8, 2005
Jun 8, 2005
Term ends
Dec 11, 2026
Dec 11, 2026
Granted
Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 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
551
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.
2
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 551 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 8, 2005, when application PCT/EP2005/006163, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 8, 2008) | Jun 8, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +551 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 11, 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 11, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,821,357 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
1 of 2 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 29, 2007 Reel 19504, frame 467 | Heinze, Habbo; Kiwitt, Jurgen; Schmidhammer, Edgar; Tikka, Pasi; Welzer, Reiner | Epcos AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 10, 2016 Reel 38953, frame 1 | Heinze, Habbo; Kiwitt, Jurgen; Schmidhammer, Edgar; Tikka, Pasi; Welzer, Reiner | Epcos AG | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Originally Recorded Assignment Document via a Corrective Document Previously Recorded on Reel 019504 Frame 467. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignors Interest. |
| Feb 2, 2017 Reel 41608, frame 145 | Epcos AG | Snaptrack, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 11, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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