Term ended Aug 15, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 21, 2023
Held by Flash Uplink LLC
Filed Sep 5, 2008 as application 12/204,837 · Granted Sep 27, 2011
Base term plus 299 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 15, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Oct 21, 2003
Oct 21, 2003
Term ended
Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024
Granted
Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 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
299
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 7,440,442, to Aug 15, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 299 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 21, 2003, when application 10/690,074, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 5, 2008) | Oct 21, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +299 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 15, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,440,442) | resolves to Aug 15, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Aug 15, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,440,442 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,027,333 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 8,509,225 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2017 | Aug 2017 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2010 Reel 24630, frame 820 | 3COM Corporation | Hewlett-Packard Company | Merger |
| Jul 15, 2010 Reel 25039, frame 844 | 3COM Corporation | Hewlett-Packard Company | Corrective Assignment to Correct the See Attached |
| Dec 6, 2011 Reel 27329, frame 44 | Hewlett-Packard Company | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 1, 2012 Reel 28911, frame 846 | Hewlett-Packard Company | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Corrective Assignment Previuosly Recorded on Reel 027329 Frame 0001 and 0044. |
| Nov 9, 2015 Reel 37079, frame 1 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 16, 2023 Reel 62725, frame 741 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 22, 2024 Reel 66878, frame 656 | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Flash Uplink LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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 299 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 7,440,442, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
154
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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.