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System and Method for Constructing a Carrier to Interference Matrix Based on Subscriber Calls

US 8,233,907 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 31, 2016 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 3, 2004 as application 10/979,126 · Granted Jul 31, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 964 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 31, 2016
2004 2027
Clock starts
Nov 3, 2004
No longer in force
Jul 31, 2016
Granted
Jul 31, 2012
Term would have run to
Jun 25, 2027
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
964
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
20
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 Jun 25, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 964 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 3, 2004, when this application, 10/979,126, was filedNov 3, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+964 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 25, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 31, 2016High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 31, 2016High confidence

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Application 10/235,001Abandoned
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US 7,450,948Term ended
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US 7,272,393Lapsed on the fee record
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Application 10/811,342Abandoned
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US 7,215,944Lapsed on the fee record
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Oct 2023
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US 8,233,907this patent
Jul 2016
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8 of 20 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 15, 2004
Reel 15466, frame 152
Shah, Dipesh HasmukhialCingular Wireless IIAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 13, 2005
Reel 16566, frame 348
Cingular Wireless, LLCCingular Wireless II, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 14, 2006
Reel 17163, frame 721
Cingular Wireless II, Inc.Cingular Wireless II, LLCCertificate of Conversion

Sources

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