Lapsed Mar 25, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

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Filed Apr 2, 2007 as application 11/695,507 · Granted Mar 25, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1603 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Mar 25, 2026

2007 2031

Clock starts
Apr 2, 2007

No longer in force
Mar 25, 2026

Granted
Mar 25, 2014

Term would have run to
Aug 22, 2031

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

1,603

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.

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 Aug 22, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 1603 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 Apr 2, 2007, when this application, 11/695,507, was filed	Apr 2, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1603 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 22, 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 Mar 25, 2026	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 25, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 8,683,601	this patent Mar 2026	Mar 2026
Application PCT/US2007/065925	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,392,344	In force Oct 2027	Oct 2027

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
Apr 20, 2007 Reel 19188, frame 321	Rassool, Reza P.	Widevine Technologies, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 22, 2011 Reel 26535, frame 65	Widevine Technologies, Inc.	Google Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 2, 2017 Reel 44101, frame 299	Google Inc.	Google LLC	Change of Name

Sources

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

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Note

The 1603 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 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.

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