Use of wireless devices' external storage

US 8,606,880 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Dec 10, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Synkloud Technologies, LLC

Filed Dec 4, 2003 as application 10/726,897 · Granted Dec 10, 2013

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 2766 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Dec 10, 2025

2003 2031

Clock starts
Dec 4, 2003

No longer in force
Dec 10, 2025

Granted
Dec 10, 2013

Term would have run to
Jul 1, 2031

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

2,766

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.

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 Dec 4, 2003, when this application, 10/726,897, was filed	Dec 4, 2023	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+2766 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jul 1, 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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Dec 10, 2025	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 10, 2025	High confidence

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Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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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Use of wireless devices' external storage

Lapsed Dec 10, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

20-year base term ended Dec 4, 2023

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