Lapsed Aug 5, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 16, 2028
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Filed Nov 30, 2010 as application 12/957,237 · Granted Aug 5, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 918 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Aug 5, 2026
2008
2029
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2008
Dec 16, 2008
No longer in force
Aug 5, 2026
Aug 5, 2026
Granted
Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014
Term would have run to
Apr 12, 2029
Apr 12, 2029
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
918
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 7,869,356.
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.
2
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 Apr 12, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 918 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: Low. 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 Dec 16, 2008, when application 12/336,402, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 30, 2010) | Dec 16, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +918 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 22, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,869,356) | capped to Apr 12, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Aug 5, 2026 | Medium confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record rates this date lower than the steps above account for | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 5, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,869,356 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 8,797,857 | this patent Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2010 Reel 25506, frame 306 | Dodson, Jeffrey Michael; Keirouz, Joe | PLX Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2014 Reel 34069, frame 494 | PLX Technology, Inc. | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| May 7, 2015 Reel 35615, frame 767 | PLX Technology, Inc. | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2016 Reel 37682, frame 802 | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | PLX Technology, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights (Releases RF 034069-0494) |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37808, frame 1 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41710, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Oct 4, 2018 Reel 47230, frame 910 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47351, frame 384 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Effective Date of the Merger Previously Recorded at Reel: 047230 Frame: 0910. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Mar 8, 2019 Reel 49248, frame 558 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Error in Recording the Merger in the Incorrect US Patent No. 8,876,094 Previously Recorded on Reel 047351 Frame 0384. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
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Note
The 918 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 7,869,356.
Citations
5
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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