Lapsed Jul 8, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 9, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Nuance Communications, Inc.
Filed Aug 9, 2006 as application 11/501,950 · Granted Jul 8, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1178 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jul 8, 2022
2006
2026
Clock starts
Aug 9, 2006
Aug 9, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 8, 2022
Jul 8, 2022
Granted
Jul 8, 2014
Jul 8, 2014
Term would have run to
Aug 9, 2026
Aug 9, 2026
base term
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
1,178
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,822,610, US 7,957,975, US 8,315,878.
1 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.
19
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 9, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 1178 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 9, 2006, when this application, 11/501,950, was filed | Aug 9, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1178 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 30, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,822,610, US 7,957,975, US 8,315,878) | capped to Aug 9, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 8, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 8, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,912,498 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 7,315,818 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 8,019,324 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,957,975 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,775,189 | this patent Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 7,822,610 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,106,742 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 8,103,509 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2007 Reel 19036, frame 657 | Burns, Stephen S.; Kowitz, Mickey W. | Mobilevoicecontrol, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2008 Reel 20771, frame 805 | Mobile Voice Control, Inc. | Mobile Voice Control, LLC. | Merger |
| Oct 16, 2012 Reel 29133, frame 805 | Mobile Voice Control LLC | Nuance Communications, Inc. | Merger |
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Note
The 1178 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,822,610, US 7,957,975, US 8,315,878.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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