Also listed on International Business Machines Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 19, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 8, 2024
Held by Activision Publishing, Inc.
Filed Mar 24, 2005 as application 11/089,389 · Granted Nov 15, 2011
Base term plus 955 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2026
Clock starts
Apr 8, 2004
Apr 8, 2004
Term ends
Nov 19, 2026
Nov 19, 2026
Granted
Nov 15, 2011
Nov 15, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
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
955
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.
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 955 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 8, 2004, when application 10/821,050, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 24, 2005) | Apr 8, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +955 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 19, 2026 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 19, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,428,588 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| US 8,057,307 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,702,784 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2005 Reel 16368, frame 964 | Berstis, Viktors; Bethencourt, John Daniel Sicron; Damm, Kevin Blake; Deen, Robert Glenn; Hammer, Matthew Arthur; Kaufman, James H.; Tobin, Jon Lehman | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2013 Reel 29900, frame 285 | International Business Machines Corporation | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2014 Reel 32240, frame 257 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 17, 2016 Reel 40381, frame 487 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Blizzard Inc.; Activision Publishing, Inc.; Activision Entertainment Holdings, Inc.; Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Blizzard Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Entertainment Holdings, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 19, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 955 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
142
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.
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