Term ends May 3, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 29, 2030
Held by Pantech Corporation
Filed Oct 29, 2010 as application 12/916,203 · Granted Sep 17, 2013
Base term plus 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2010
Oct 29, 2010
Term ends
May 3, 2031
May 3, 2031
Granted
Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 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
186
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.
10
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 186 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 Oct 29, 2010, when this application, 12/916,203, was filed | Oct 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +186 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 3, 2031 | 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 | May 3, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,538,411 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,131,482 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,392,582 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 9,265,034 | In force no later than Jun 2031 | no later than Jun 2031 |
| US 10,299,251 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 10,736,084 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 11,463,995 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 11,765,727 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 2010 Reel 25223, frame 909 | Kwon, Ki Bum; Jung, Myung Cheul; Seo, Sung Jin | Pantech Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 21, 2016 Reel 39428, frame 268 | Pantech Co., Ltd. | Pantech Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 27, 2017 Reel 42098, frame 451 | Pantech Inc. | Goldpeak Innovations Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2020 Reel 52657, frame 66 | Goldpeak Innovations Inc. | Pantech Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2031
Term ends May 3, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
140
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
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