Also listed on Arch Rock LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 12, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 25, 2026
Held by Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed Dec 19, 2007 as application 12/004,125 · Granted May 8, 2012
Base term plus 891 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2006
Apr 25, 2006
Term ends
Jun 12, 2027
Jun 12, 2027
Granted
May 8, 2012
May 8, 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
891
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,515,556.
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.
8
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 891 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 25, 2006, when application 11/411,404, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 19, 2007) | Apr 25, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +891 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 2, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,515,556) | capped to Jun 12, 2027 | 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 | Jun 12, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,515,556 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Application 11/516,841 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2007/010005 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,681,671 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,986,652 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 8,175,073 | this patent Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 8,009,602 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 9,078,212 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2008 Reel 20717, frame 794 | Hui, Jonathan W.; Culler, David E. | Arch Rock | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2011 Reel 26138, frame 950 | Arch Rock Corporation | Arch Rock LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 15, 2011 Reel 26137, frame 114 | Arch Rock LLC | Cisco Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2027
Term ends Jun 12, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 891 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,515,556.
Citations
8
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
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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.