Lapsed Feb 15, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 30, 2022
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Apr 9, 2002 as application 10/119,784 · Granted Feb 15, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1077 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 15, 2023
2002
2026
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2002
Jan 30, 2002
No longer in force
Feb 15, 2023
Feb 15, 2023
Granted
Feb 15, 2011
Feb 15, 2011
Term would have run to
Jan 11, 2025
Jan 11, 2025
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
1,077
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
82
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 11, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 1077 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 30, 2002, when application 10/066,465, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 9, 2002) | Jan 30, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1077 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 11, 2025 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 15, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 15, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/276,369 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,370,351 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,987,421 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| Application 10/061,911 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,487,535 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,035,847 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 |
| US 7,734,826 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2018 | Jun 2018 |
| US 7,890,639 | this patent Feb 2023 | Feb 2023 |
8 of 82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2002 Reel 12788, frame 53 | Holmstead, Shawn Matthew; Atkinson, Olin Sayre; Lowry, Dale Allen; Seiler, Christpoher Jean | Novell, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 23, 2012 Reel 28252, frame 216 | Novell, Inc. | Credit Suisse AG, as Collateral Agent | Grant of Patent Security Interest First Lien |
| May 23, 2012 Reel 28252, frame 316 | Novell, Inc. | Credit Suisse AG, as Collateral Agent | Grant of Patent Security Interest Second Lien |
| Aug 24, 2012 Reel 28841, frame 47 | Novell, Inc. | CPTN Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 27, 2012 Reel 28856, frame 230 | CPTN Holdings LLC | Apple Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 24, 2014 Reel 34469, frame 57 | Credit Suisse AG | Novell, Inc. | Release of Security Interest Recorded at Reel/Frame 028252/0316 |
| Nov 24, 2014 Reel 34470, frame 680 | Credit Suisse AG | Novell, Inc. | Release of Security Interest Recorded at Reel/Frame 028252/0216 |
Sources
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Note
The 1077 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2011 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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