Lapsed Mar 15, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 3, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed May 3, 2006 as application 11/416,324 · Granted Mar 15, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 679 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 15, 2023
2006
2028
Clock starts
May 3, 2006
May 3, 2006
No longer in force
Mar 15, 2023
Mar 15, 2023
Granted
Mar 15, 2011
Mar 15, 2011
Term would have run to
Mar 12, 2028
Mar 12, 2028
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
679
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.
29
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 Mar 12, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 679 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 May 3, 2006, when this application, 11/416,324, was filed | May 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +679 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 12, 2028 | 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 Mar 15, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 15, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,909,879 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2017 | Jun 2017 |
| US 7,013,145 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2018 | Mar 2018 |
| US 7,489,690 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,355,413 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2021 | Jan 2021 |
| US 7,907,578 | this patent Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2006/023872 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,984,130 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 8,244,209 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
8 of 29 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 3, 2006 Reel 17834, frame 208 | Haynberg, Sean Patrick | V-comm, L.l.c. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2006 Reel 17834, frame 214 | Harvey, Richard Lee; Stone, William Howard | Cellco Partnership (D/B/A Verizon Wireless) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2006 Reel 17857, frame 691 | V-comm, L.l.c. | Cellco Partnership (D/B/A Verizon Wireless) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 26, 2008 Reel 21596, frame 160 | Harvey, Richard Lee; Stone, William Howard, JR | Cellco Partnership D/B/A Verizon Wireless | Letter Correcting Assignment and Corrected Assignment. |
| Oct 29, 2008 Reel 21759, frame 217 | V-Comm L.L.C. | Cellco Partnership D/B/A Verizon Wireless | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name to Read Cellco Partnership D/B/A Verizon Wireless and Should Not Include Any Parentheses. Previously Recorded on Reel 017857 Frame 0691. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignee Name Is Cellco Partnership D/B/A Verizon Wireless.. |
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Note
The 679 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
61
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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