Also listed on Onlive, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation), an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Sep 24, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 10, 2022
Filed Dec 10, 2002 as application 10/315,460 · Granted Dec 7, 2010
Base term plus 1749 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2002
2027
Clock starts
Dec 10, 2002
Dec 10, 2002
Term ends
Sep 24, 2027
Sep 24, 2027
Granted
Dec 7, 2010
Dec 7, 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
1,749
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.
127
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 1749 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 Dec 10, 2002, when this application, 10/315,460, was filed | Dec 10, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1749 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 24, 2027 | 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 | Sep 24, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,849,491 | this patent Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| Application 11/999,488 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,108,107 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,840,475 | Term ended no later than Nov 2024 | no later than Nov 2024 |
| US 9,003,461 | Term ended no later than Jun 2025 | no later than Jun 2025 |
| US 8,949,922 | Term ended no later than Oct 2025 | no later than Oct 2025 |
| US 8,893,207 | Term ended no later than Sep 2025 | no later than Sep 2025 |
| US 8,468,575 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
8 of 127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2004 Reel 15362, frame 286 | Perlman, Stephen G. | Rearden Studios, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 7, 2005 Reel 16229, frame 783 | Rearden Studios, Inc. | Readen, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 22, 2006 Reel 18200, frame 563 | Rearden, Inc. | Rearden LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2007 Reel 19767, frame 456 | Rearden LLC | Onlive, Inc. ( a California Corporation) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 17, 2007 Reel 19843, frame 725 | Onlive, Inc. (a California Corporation) | Onlive, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) | Merger |
| Aug 29, 2012 Reel 28884, frame 120 | Onlive, Inc. | Insolvency Services Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2012 Reel 28912, frame 53 | Insolvency Services Group, Inc. | OL2, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35315, frame 949 | Rearden, Inc. | Stephen G. Perlman Revocable Trust Udt Dated August 7, 1997 | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35315, frame 970 | Stephen G. Perlman Revocable Trust Udt Dated August 7, 1997 | Rearden LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35315, frame 980 | Rearden LLC | Onlive, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35354, frame 237 | OL2, Inc. | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2016 Reel 38617, frame 474 | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 30, 2020 Reel 53323, frame 567 | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2027
Term ends Sep 24, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1749 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
131
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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