Term ended Feb 5, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 5, 2024
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,764,637, US 7,773,550), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Uniloc 2017 LLC
Filed Apr 5, 2004 as application 10/817,994 · Granted Jun 14, 2011
Base term plus 1030 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Feb 5, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Apr 5, 2004
Apr 5, 2004
Term ended
Feb 5, 2026
Feb 5, 2026
Granted
Jun 14, 2011
Jun 14, 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
1,030
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,764,637, US 7,773,550.
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.
16
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 1030 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 5, 2004, when this application, 10/817,994, was filed | Apr 5, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1030 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 30, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,764,637, US 7,773,550) | capped to Feb 5, 2026 | Medium 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 | Feb 5, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,961,663 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 7,764,637 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
| US 7,773,550 | Term ended no later than Feb 2026 | no later than Feb 2026 |
| US 7,672,255 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,502,335 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,817,606 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 7,940,704 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 7,969,925 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
8 of 16 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 22, 2012 Reel 28247, frame 668 | Lin, Daniel | Pendragon Wireless LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 14, 2018 Reel 45338, frame 601 | Pendragon Wireless LLC | Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 12, 2018 Reel 46532, frame 88 | Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | Uniloc 2017 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 1030 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,764,637, US 7,773,550.
Citations
55
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.
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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