Lapsed Sep 16, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 8, 2028
Why Medium: The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case".
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Filed Sep 14, 2012 as application 13/618,652 · Granted Sep 16, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 16, 2026
2008
2028
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2008
Feb 8, 2008
No longer in force
Sep 16, 2026
Sep 16, 2026
Granted
Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014
Term would have run to
Feb 8, 2028
Feb 8, 2028
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
3
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 Feb 8, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 8, 2008, when application 12/028,774, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 14, 2012) | Feb 8, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Sep 16, 2026 | Medium confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,274,265 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,901,909 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,836,306 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2014 Reel 32094, frame 449 | Khanna, Sandeep; Srinivasan, Maheshwaran; Li, De Cai; Deshpande, Chetan | Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 30, 2014 Reel 32094, frame 525 | Silicon Valley Bank | Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 30, 2014 Reel 32140, frame 830 | Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Apr 16, 2015 Reel 35443, frame 763 | Netlogic I LLC | Broadcom Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2015 Reel 35443, frame 824 | Netlogic Microsystems, Inc. | Netlogic I LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 11, 2016 Reel 37806, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 1, 2017 Reel 41706, frame 1 | Broadcom Corporation | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41712, frame 1 | Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Broadcom Corporation | 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. |
Sources
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Citations
9
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.
How we rank
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