Term ends Feb 11, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 31, 2022
Held by Deepwell IP LLC
Filed Feb 11, 2008 as application 12/069,670 · Granted Feb 2, 2016
Base term plus 1503 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2002
2027
Clock starts
Dec 31, 2002
Dec 31, 2002
Term ends
Feb 11, 2027
Feb 11, 2027
Granted
Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016
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
1,503
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
10
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 1503 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Dec 31, 2002, when application 10/334,272, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 11, 2008) | Dec 31, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1503 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 11, 2027 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 11, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,936,898 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,098,512 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,332,763 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 7,211,478 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,645,664 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,323,367 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 7,608,897 | Term ended no later than Dec 2022 | no later than Dec 2022 |
| US 9,251,865 | this patent Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2009 Reel 22454, frame 522 | Transmeta Corporation | Transmeta LLC | Merger |
| Sep 22, 2009 Reel 23268, frame 771 | Transmeta LLC | Intellectual Venture Funding LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 29, 2015 Reel 36711, frame 160 | Intellectual Venture Funding LLC | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Merger |
| Oct 6, 2015 Reel 36797, frame 356 | Intellectual Ventures Funding LLC | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 036711 Frame: 0160. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger. |
| Jul 19, 2021 Reel 56905, frame 392 | Intellectual Venture Funding LLC | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Merger |
| Feb 3, 2022 Reel 58881, frame 459 | Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC | Intellecutal Ventures Assets 174 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 20, 2022 Reel 59649, frame 779 | Intellectual Ventures Assets 174 LLC | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 20, 2022 Reel 59654, frame 315 | Quest Patent Research Corporation | Deepwell IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Feb 2027
Term ends Feb 11, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1503 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 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.