Term ends Feb 23, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2024
Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Apr 26, 2004 as application 10/832,984 · Granted Apr 17, 2012
Base term plus 1474 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2028
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2004
Feb 10, 2004
Term ends
Feb 23, 2028
Feb 23, 2028
Granted
Apr 17, 2012
Apr 17, 2012
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
1,474
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.
11
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 1474 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 Feb 10, 2004, when application 10/776,652, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 26, 2004) | Feb 10, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1474 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 23, 2028 | 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 | Feb 23, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/776,652 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,161,411 | this patent Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2004/012851 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,715,500 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,853,893 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 8,291,320 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application 11/114,914 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2005/014262 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2004 Reel 15755, frame 408 | Robbin, Jeffrey L.; Heller, Dave; Wagner, Peter K.; Wiese, Mike | Apple Computer, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2008 Reel 20617, frame 85 | Apple Computer, Inc. | Apple Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Feb 2028
Term ends Feb 23, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1474 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
286
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.