Also listed on Therefore Limited, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 21, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 20, 2030
Held by Malikie Innovations Limited
Filed Aug 20, 2010 as application 12/860,609 · Granted Feb 25, 2014
Base term plus 579 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2032
Clock starts
Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010
Term ends
Mar 21, 2032
Mar 21, 2032
Granted
Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014
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
579
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 579 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 Aug 20, 2010, when this application, 12/860,609, was filed | Aug 20, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +579 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 21, 2032 | 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 | Mar 21, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,660,621 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 8,792,947 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
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 17, 2010 Reel 25384, frame 922 | Henley, Benjamin John; Beets, Joris Willem; Riddiford, Martin | Therefore Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 17, 2010 Reel 25386, frame 200 | Masser, Paul; Griffin, Jason Tyler; Huang, Li; Pereira, Neil Savio; Kyowski, Timothy Herbert; Fletcher, Jodie Elizabeth | Research in Motion Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2011 Reel 26215, frame 265 | Therefore Limited | Research in Motion Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 7, 2014 Reel 32836, frame 938 | Research in Motion Limited | BlackBerry Limited | Change of Name |
| Jun 16, 2023 Reel 64104, frame 103 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 19, 2023 Reel 64270, frame 1 | BlackBerry Limited | Malikie Innovations Limited | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 21, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 579 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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