Lapsed Aug 30, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 25, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed Feb 27, 2009 as application 12/380,590 · Granted Aug 30, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 198 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 30, 2023
2006
2026
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2006
Apr 25, 2006
No longer in force
Aug 30, 2023
Aug 30, 2023
Granted
Aug 30, 2011
Aug 30, 2011
Term would have run to
Nov 9, 2026
Nov 9, 2026
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
198
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 12,004,125, US 7,515,556, to Nov 9, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 Nov 9, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 198 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Apr 25, 2006, when application 11/411,404, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 27, 2009) | Apr 25, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +198 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 9, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 12,004,125, US 7,515,556) | resolves to Nov 9, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 30, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,515,556 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Application 11/516,841 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2007/010005 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,681,671 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,986,652 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 8,175,073 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 8,009,602 | this patent Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 9,078,212 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2010 Reel 24889, frame 55 | Hui, Jonathan W.; Culler, David E. | Arch Rock Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2011 Reel 26138, frame 950 | Arch Rock Corporation | Arch Rock LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 15, 2011 Reel 26137, frame 114 | Arch Rock LLC | Cisco Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 198 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 12,004,125, US 7,515,556, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
16
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.