Also listed on Thomson Licensing, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 5, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 9, 2023
Held by InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
Filed Apr 9, 2003 as application 10/410,481 · Granted Mar 8, 2011
Base term plus 1336 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2026
Clock starts
Apr 9, 2003
Apr 9, 2003
Term ends
Dec 5, 2026
Dec 5, 2026
Granted
Mar 8, 2011
Mar 8, 2011
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
1,336
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.
7
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 1336 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 Apr 9, 2003, when this application, 10/410,481, was filed | Apr 9, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1336 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 5, 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 5, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2003/021735 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,903,742 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,155,208 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 8,149,924 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 8,144,786 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 8,144,787 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 8,144,785 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
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, 2003 Reel 13966, frame 171 | Boyce, Jill Macdonald | Thomson Licensing S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 18, 2015 Reel 35958, frame 936 | Thomson Licensing S.A. | Thomson Licensing | Change of Name |
| Oct 23, 2018 Reel 47289, frame 698 | Thomson Licensing | InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 5, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1336 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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