Lapsed Mar 22, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 1, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Oct 11, 2005 as application 11/247,513 · Granted Mar 22, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1042 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 22, 2023
2004
2027
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2004
Mar 1, 2004
No longer in force
Mar 22, 2023
Mar 22, 2023
Granted
Mar 22, 2011
Mar 22, 2011
Term would have run to
Jan 7, 2027
Jan 7, 2027
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
1,042
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.
14
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 7, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 1042 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 Mar 1, 2004, when application 10/790,253, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 11, 2005) | Mar 1, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1042 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 7, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 22, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 22, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,075,535 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2018 | Jul 2018 |
| US 7,133,054 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2018 | Nov 2018 |
| US 7,042,455 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,254,271 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,224,361 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2019 | May 2019 |
| US 7,546,419 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 7,912,299 | this patent Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,930,434 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2006 Reel 17921, frame 1 | Sand Codex, LLC | Seadragon Software, Inc. | Merger |
| Jul 12, 2006 Reel 17915, frame 598 | Aguera Y Arcas, Blaise; Walker, Julian | Sand Codex, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2007 Reel 20052, frame 368 | Seadragon Software, Inc. | Microsoft Corporation | Merger |
| Dec 9, 2014 Reel 34543, frame 1 | Microsoft Corporation | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1042 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
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