Term ends Jul 26, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 9, 2032
Held by Alcatel Lucent
Filed Nov 9, 2012 as application 13/673,413 · Granted Mar 24, 2015
Base term plus 259 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012
Term ends
Jul 26, 2033
Jul 26, 2033
Granted
Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015
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
259
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.
4
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 259 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 Nov 9, 2012, when this application, 13/673,413, was filed | Nov 9, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +259 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 26, 2033 | 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 | Jul 26, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,989,729 | this patent Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2013/067676 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,439,058 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| Application 15/227,419 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 7, 2013 Reel 30510, frame 627 | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. | Credit Suisse AG | Security Interest |
| Mar 14, 2013 Reel 29994, frame 704 | Barclay, Deborah L.; Landais, Bruno; Thiebaut, Laurent | Alcatel-Lucent U.S.A., Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2013 Reel 31460, frame 173 | Landais, Bruno; Thiebaut, Laurent | Alcatel Lucent | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2013 Reel 31478, frame 663 | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. | Landais, Bruno; Thiebaut, Laurent | Rescission of Assignment |
| Oct 23, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. | Landais, Bruno | Rescission of Assignment |
| Oct 23, 2013 reel/frame not recorded | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. | Thiebaut, Laurent | Rescission of Assignment |
| Jan 10, 2014 Reel 31935, frame 230 | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. | Alcatel Lucent | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 9, 2014 Reel 33949, frame 16 | Credit Suisse AG | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2033
Term ends Jul 26, 2033. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 259 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
70
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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