Lapsed Jul 19, 2024 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Altera Corporation
Filed Jun 10, 2014 as application 14/300,436 · Granted Jul 19, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 74 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 19, 2024
2006
2027
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2006
Dec 5, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 19, 2024
Jul 19, 2024
Granted
Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016
Term would have run to
Feb 17, 2027
Feb 17, 2027
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
74
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 7,930,336, to Feb 17, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
5
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Feb 17, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 74 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 5, 2006, when application 11/566,982, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 10, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 5, 2026 | 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 | +74 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 17, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,930,336) | resolves to Feb 17, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 19, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 19, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,930,336 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 8,386,553 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| US 9,063,870 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 9,395,953 | this patent Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
4 of 5 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Note
The 74 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 7,930,336, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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