Term ends Jun 30, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 5, 2028
Held by Inphi Corporation
Filed Nov 5, 2008 as application 12/265,585 · Granted Oct 29, 2013
Base term plus 967 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2031
Clock starts
Nov 5, 2008
Nov 5, 2008
Term ends
Jun 30, 2031
Jun 30, 2031
Granted
Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
967
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.
2
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 967 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 Nov 5, 2008, when this application, 12/265,585, was filed | Nov 5, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +967 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 30, 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 | Jun 30, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,572,539 | this patent Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2008/082687 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2009 Reel 22740, frame 822 | Cortadella, Jordi; Singhal, Vigyan; Tuncer, Emre; Lavagno, Luciano | Elastix Corporation, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2011 Reel 25853, frame 122 | Elastix Corporation, Inc. | Adara Ventures Sicar; Co.-Inversion Neotec S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2011 reel/frame not recorded | Elastix Corporation, Inc. | Adara Ventures Sicar | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2011 reel/frame not recorded | Elastix Corporation, Inc. | Co.-Inversion Neotec S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 14, 2012 Reel 28782, frame 322 | Esilicon Corporation | Gold Hill Capital 2008, LP; Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Aug 14, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Esilicon Corporation | Gold Hill Capital 2008, LP | Security Agreement |
| Aug 14, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Esilicon Corporation | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Mar 26, 2013 Reel 30085, frame 527 | Adara Ventures Sicar; Coinversion Neotec, S.A., S.C.R., de Regimen Simplificado | Esilicon Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 18, 2017 Reel 43334, frame 521 | Esilicon Corporation | Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc. | Security Interest |
| Sep 22, 2017 Reel 43669, frame 832 | Esilicon Corporation | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 7, 2017 Reel 44335, frame 115 | Gold Hill Capital 2008, LP | Esilicon Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 21, 2019 Reel 49558, frame 449 | Silicon Valley Bank | Esilicon Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 20, 2020 Reel 51559, frame 136 | Esilicon Corporation | Inphi Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2031
Term ends Jun 30, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 967 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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