Term ended Dec 10, 2022 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 10, 2022
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,387,099, US 8,661,496, US 8,834,274, US 8,840,475, US 8,893,207, US 8,949,922, US 9,003,461, US 9,032,465), so the cap could be lower.
Filed Dec 5, 2007 as application 11/999,475 · Granted Aug 18, 2015
Base term plus 370 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 10, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 10, 2002
Dec 10, 2002
Term ended
Dec 10, 2022
Dec 10, 2022
Granted
Aug 18, 2015
Aug 18, 2015
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
370
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 10,286,315, US 8,387,099, US 8,468,575, US 8,495,678, US 8,549,574, US 8,632,410, US 8,661,496, US 8,832,772, US 8,834,274, US 8,839,336, US 8,840,475, US 8,893,207, US 8,949,922, US 9,003,461, US 9,015,784, US 9,032,465, US 9,118,968, US 9,707,481.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
127
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 370 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 10, 2002, when application 10/315,460, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 5, 2007) | Dec 10, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +370 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 15, 2023 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,286,315, US 8,387,099, US 8,468,575, US 8,495,678, US 8,549,574, US 8,632,410, US 8,661,496, US 8,832,772, US 8,834,274, US 8,839,336, US 8,840,475, US 8,893,207, US 8,949,922, US 9,003,461, US 9,015,784, US 9,032,465, US 9,118,968, US 9,707,481) | capped to Dec 10, 2022 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 10, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,849,491 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| Application 11/999,488 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,108,107 | this patent Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,840,475 | Term ended no later than Nov 2024 | no later than Nov 2024 |
| US 9,003,461 | Term ended no later than Jun 2025 | no later than Jun 2025 |
| US 8,949,922 | Term ended no later than Oct 2025 | no later than Oct 2025 |
| US 8,893,207 | Term ended no later than Sep 2025 | no later than Sep 2025 |
| US 8,468,575 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
8 of 127 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2007 Reel 20271, frame 759 | Perlman, Stephen G.; Van Der Laan, Roger | Onlive, Inc. (a Delaware Corporation) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 29, 2012 Reel 28884, frame 120 | Onlive, Inc. | Insolvency Services Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 6, 2012 Reel 28912, frame 53 | Insolvency Services Group, Inc. | OL2, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2015 Reel 35354, frame 237 | OL2, Inc. | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2016 Reel 38617, frame 474 | Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 30, 2020 Reel 53323, frame 567 | Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC | Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 370 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 10,286,315, US 8,387,099, US 8,468,575, US 8,495,678, US 8,549,574, US 8,632,410, US 8,661,496, US 8,832,772, US 8,834,274, US 8,839,336, US 8,840,475, US 8,893,207, US 8,949,922, US 9,003,461, US 9,015,784, US 9,032,465, US 9,118,968, US 9,707,481.
Citations
131
later US patents cite this one
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