Term ends Nov 20, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2021
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Rakuten Group, Inc.
Filed Jun 30, 2006 as application 11/479,715 · Granted May 19, 2015
Base term plus 2703 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2001
2028
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2001
Jun 27, 2001
Term ends
Nov 20, 2028
Nov 20, 2028
Granted
May 19, 2015
May 19, 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
2,703
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.
12
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 2703 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 27, 2001, when application PCT/GB2001/002857, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 30, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 27, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2703 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 20, 2028 | 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 | Nov 20, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,096,226 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| Application 11/452,851 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,572,123 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,038,108 | this patent Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| Application 11/517,015 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,126,313 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 8,005,345 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 7,970,260 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35394, frame 844 | McCausland, Douglas | Mci Worldcom, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35394, frame 959 | Discount, Jonathan L. | Mci, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35395, frame 490 | Worldcom, Inc. | Mci, Inc. | Merger |
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35395, frame 619 | Mci, Inc. | Mci, LLC | Merger |
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35420, frame 807 | Horner, David | Mci, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35420, frame 892 | Mci Worldcom, Inc. | Worldcom, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Apr 13, 2015 Reel 35421, frame 31 | Mci, LLC | Verizon Business Global LLC | Change of Name |
| Nov 5, 2018 Reel 47408, frame 944 | Verizon Business Global LLC | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 8, 2019 Reel 47923, frame 588 | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Rakuten, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 6, 2021 Reel 58314, frame 657 | Rakuten, Inc. | Rakuten Group, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 29, 2024 Reel 68066, frame 103 | Rakuten, Inc. | Rakuten Group, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent Numbers 10342096;10671117; 10716375; 10716376;10795407;10795408; and 10827591 Previously Recorded at Reel: 58314 Frame: 657. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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What's changing
Nov 2028
Term ends Nov 20, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 2703 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
110
later US patents cite this one
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