Lapsed Jan 24, 2020 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 14, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Apr 19, 2004 as application 10/827,620 · Granted Jan 24, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 2048 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 24, 2020
2004
2029
Clock starts
Jan 14, 2004
Jan 14, 2004
No longer in force
Jan 24, 2020
Jan 24, 2020
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Jan 24, 2012
Term would have run to
Aug 23, 2029
Aug 23, 2029
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
2,048
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
30
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 Aug 23, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 2048 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 14, 2004, when applications 10/757,711, 10/757,713 and 10/757,714, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 19, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 14, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2048 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 23, 2029 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 24, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 24, 2020 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,046,668 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,457,906 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,103,064 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,836,211 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,219,183 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 8,102,843 | this patent Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 |
| US 7,188,209 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,664,909 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
8 of 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2004 Reel 15749, frame 784 | Pettey, Christopher J.; Khan, Asif; Pekkala, Richard E.; Utley, Robert Haskell; Pagan, Annette | Nextio Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 25, 2010 Reel 24434, frame 248 | Nextio Inc. | Emulex Design and Manufacturing Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2014 Reel 32087, frame 842 | Emulex Design and Manufacturing Corporation | Emulex Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2015 Reel 36942, frame 213 | Emulex Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37808, frame 1 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41710, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 5, 2018 Reel 47422, frame 464 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48883, frame 702 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Execution Date Previously Recorded at Reel: 047422 Frame: 0464. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
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The 2048 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
46
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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