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Method of Generating Spreading Codes, CDMA Transmission Apparatus, and CDMA Reception Apparatus

US 7,916,770 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 12, 2014 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Lapsed Mar 29, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jan 4, 2006 as application 10/563,248 · Granted Mar 29, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1456 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 29, 2019
2004 2028
Clock starts
Jun 28, 2004
No longer in force
Mar 29, 2019
Granted
Mar 29, 2011
Term would have run to
Jun 23, 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
1,456
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
204
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 Jun 23, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 1456 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 28, 2004, when application PCT/JP2004/009449, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 4, 2006)Jun 28, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1456 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 23, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 29, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 29, 2019High confidence

This family

US 7,839,759Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2018
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US 7,460,502Term ended
Feb 2025
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US 7,564,902Term ended
Oct 2025
Oct 2025
US 7,610,630Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2021
Oct 2021
US 7,570,626Term ended
Sep 2024
Sep 2024
US 7,738,774In force
Mar 2027
Mar 2027
US 7,916,770this patent
Mar 2019
Mar 2019
US 7,916,674Term ended
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
8 of 204 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 26, 2006
Reel 18301, frame 989
Uesugi, MitsuruMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 14, 2008
Reel 21835, frame 421
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Panasonic CorporationChange of Name
Jan 24, 2014
Reel 32180, frame 115
Optis Wireless Technology, LLCHighbridge Principal Strategies, LLC, as Collateral AgentLien
Feb 23, 2014
Reel 32326, frame 707
Panasonic CorporationOptis Wireless Technology, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 12, 2014
Reel 32437, frame 638
Optis Wireless Technology, LLCWilmington Trust, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Jul 15, 2016
Reel 39361, frame 1
HPS Investment Partners, LLCOptis Wireless Technology, LLCRelease of Security Interest

Sources

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