Term ended Jan 2, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 3, 2023
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Thales DIS France SAS
Filed Jun 3, 2008 as application 12/132,516 · Granted May 24, 2011
Base term plus 274 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 2, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Apr 3, 2003
Apr 3, 2003
Term ended
Jan 2, 2024
Jan 2, 2024
Granted
May 24, 2011
May 24, 2011
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
274
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.
6
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 274 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 3, 2003, when application 10/406,519, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 3, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 3, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +274 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 2, 2024 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 2, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,269,793 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,946,490 | this patent Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,931,199 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 9,934,503 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
4 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2011 Reel 25868, frame 54 | Elgar, Adam; Elgar, Tom | Serverside Group Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 10, 2015 Reel 36536, frame 878 | Serverside Group Limited | Gemalto S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 11, 2023 Reel 64855, frame 1 | Gemalto S.A. | Thales DIS France S.A. | Change of Name |
| Sep 14, 2023 Reel 64898, frame 413 | Thales DIS France S.A. | Thales DIS France SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 274 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
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.
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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