Term ends Oct 16, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 17, 2027
Held by Creative Technology Ltd.
Filed Mar 13, 2008 as application 12/048,180 · Granted Apr 21, 2015
Base term plus 883 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
May 17, 2007
May 17, 2007
Term ends
Oct 16, 2029
Oct 16, 2029
Granted
Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
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
883
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,379,868, to Oct 16, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
13
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 883 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 17, 2007, when application 11/750,300, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 13, 2008) | May 17, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +883 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 16, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,379,868) | resolves to Oct 16, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Oct 16, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,379,868 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 8,619,998 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 8,345,899 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 9,088,855 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 9,014,377 | this patent Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,374,365 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2008/078632 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,712,061 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2008 Reel 21067, frame 621 | Goodwin, Michael M.; Jot, Jean-marc | Creative Technology Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2029
Term ends Oct 16, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 883 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,379,868, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
59
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.
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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.