Lapsed Jun 21, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 14, 2025
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Intellectual Ventures II LLC
Filed May 18, 2010 as application 12/781,971 · Granted Jun 21, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 21, 2023
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2005
Oct 14, 2005
No longer in force
Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023
Granted
Jun 21, 2011
Jun 21, 2011
Term would have run to
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
2
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 Oct 14, 2025: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Oct 14, 2005, when application 11/251,224, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 18, 2010) | Oct 14, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 Jun 21, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 21, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,768,933 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 7,965,644 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2012 Reel 27521, frame 906 | Telcordia Licensing Company LLC | Tti Inventions B LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 10, 2012 Reel 27682, frame 210 | Tti Inventions B LLC | Intellectual Ventures II LLC | Merger |
Sources
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Citations
8
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
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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