Term ends Aug 27, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 18, 2028
Held by Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Hosiden Corporation
Filed Jan 18, 2008 as application 12/010,033 · Granted Mar 5, 2013
Base term plus 952 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
Jan 18, 2008
Jan 18, 2008
Term ends
Aug 27, 2030
Aug 27, 2030
Granted
Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013
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
952
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.
19
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 952 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 Jan 18, 2008, when this application, 12/010,033, was filed | Jan 18, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +952 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 27, 2030 | 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 27, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,387,437 | this patent Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 8,081,189 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 9,462,209 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 8,175,993 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 8,152,640 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,264,472 | In force Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
| US 8,648,871 | In force no later than Jun 2032 | no later than Jun 2032 |
| US 8,749,571 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2008 Reel 20444, frame 110 | Yamazaki, Hitoshi; Nagareda, Takeshi; Umekawa, Masahiko; Ichikawa, Ryuji; Mori, Takeshi; Takeda, Kazuhiro | Nintendo Co., Ltd.; Hosiden Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 18, 2008 reel/frame not recorded | Ichikawa, Ryuji; Mori, Takeshi; Nagareda, Takeshi; Takeda, Kazuhiro; Umekawa, Masahiko; Yamazaki, Hitoshi | Nintendo Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 18, 2008 reel/frame not recorded | Ichikawa, Ryuji; Mori, Takeshi; Nagareda, Takeshi; Takeda, Kazuhiro; Umekawa, Masahiko; Yamazaki, Hitoshi | Hosiden Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2030
Term ends Aug 27, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 952 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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