Lapsed Aug 28, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 17, 2025
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Jul 31, 2009 as application 12/534,059 · Granted Aug 28, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 436 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 28, 2024
2005
2026
Clock starts
May 17, 2005
May 17, 2005
No longer in force
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
Granted
Aug 28, 2012
Aug 28, 2012
Term would have run to
Jul 27, 2026
Jul 27, 2026
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
436
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,587,671, to Jul 27, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
2
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 Jul 27, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 436 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 17, 2005, when application 11/132,072, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 31, 2009) | May 17, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +436 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 27, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,587,671) | resolves to Jul 27, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 28, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 28, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,587,671 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,255,795 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
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 28, 2010 Reel 25204, frame 809 | Palm, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2013 Reel 30341, frame 459 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 18, 2013 Reel 31837, frame 659 | Palm, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 18, 2013 Reel 31837, frame 544 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 28, 2014 Reel 32177, frame 210 | Hewlett-Packard Company; Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.; Palm, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 436 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,587,671, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.