Term ended Apr 26, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 11, 2024
Held by Here Global B.V.
Filed Mar 11, 2004 as application 10/798,531 · Granted Nov 9, 2010
Base term plus 776 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 26, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 11, 2004
Mar 11, 2004
Term ended
Apr 26, 2026
Apr 26, 2026
Granted
Nov 9, 2010
Nov 9, 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
776
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.
5
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 776 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 11, 2004, when this application, 10/798,531, was filed | Mar 11, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +776 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 26, 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 | Apr 26, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,970,749 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 7,828,655 | this patent Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,562,439 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 7,967,678 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 7,921,136 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2004 Reel 15091, frame 918 | Uhlir, Kurt Brooks; Dougherty, Christopher; Shuman, Michael V.; Casino, Roy | Navteq North America, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2012 Reel 27588, frame 51 | Navteq North America, LLC | Navteq B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 26, 2014 Reel 33830, frame 681 | Navteq B.V. | Here Global B.V. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 776 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
71
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
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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