Term ends Aug 16, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 30, 2025
Held by OSRAM AG
Filed Jul 8, 2009 as application 11/721,870 · Granted Apr 17, 2012
Base term plus 624 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Nov 30, 2005
Nov 30, 2005
Term ends
Aug 16, 2027
Aug 16, 2027
Granted
Apr 17, 2012
Apr 17, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
624
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 624 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 Nov 30, 2005, when application PCT/DE2005/002154, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2009) | Nov 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +624 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 16, 2027 | 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 | Aug 16, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,159,144 | this patent Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,884,521 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 2007 Reel 19918, frame 480 | Behr, Gerhard; Biebl, Alois; Hackenbuchner, Stefan; Helbig, Peter; Hirschmann, Gunther; Reiners, Thomas; Vollmer, Ralf | Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft Fur Elektrische Gluhlampen MBH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 4, 2007 Reel 19918, frame 586 | Engl, Moritz; Haas, Heinz; Hofmann, Markus; Huber, Rainer; Reill, Joachim | OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 25, 2010 Reel 24134, frame 421 | Patent-Treuhand-Gesellschaft Fur Elektrische Gluhlampen MBH | OSRAM Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung | Merger |
| Mar 7, 2012 Reel 27819, frame 39 | OSRAM Gesellschaft Mit Beschrankter Haftung | OSRAM AG | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2027
Term ends Aug 16, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 624 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 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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