Lapsed Sep 3, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 26, 2028
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Nov 17, 2009 as application 12/620,478 · Granted Sep 3, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 3, 2025
2008
2029
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2008
Sep 26, 2008
No longer in force
Sep 3, 2025
Sep 3, 2025
Granted
Sep 3, 2013
Sep 3, 2013
Term would have run to
Dec 3, 2029
Dec 3, 2029
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
433
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
15
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 Dec 3, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 433 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Sep 26, 2008, when application 12/239,656, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2009) | Sep 26, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +433 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 3, 2029 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 3, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,385,822 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 8,401,469 | In force Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
| US 8,712,324 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 8,688,037 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2009/055928 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,527,688 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 8,234,509 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2009/068328 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2010 Reel 23895, frame 116 | Chatterjee, Manjirnath; Matsuoka, Yoshimichi; Liu, Eric; Carnes, Michael; Horowitz, Ronald; Grange, William Justin; Corbridge, Mark; Hornyak, Matthew | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| 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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Note
The 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
106
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2013 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.