Lapsed Jun 27, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 31, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Dec 18, 2009 as application 12/642,516 · Granted Jun 27, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1017 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 27, 2025
2006
2029
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2006
Oct 31, 2006
No longer in force
Jun 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025
Granted
Jun 27, 2017
Jun 27, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 13, 2029
Aug 13, 2029
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,017
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
15
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 Aug 13, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1017 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Oct 31, 2006, when application 11/555,255, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 18, 2009) | Oct 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1017 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 13, 2029 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 27, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,036,683 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2007/083217 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,260,214 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
| US 8,185,165 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 8,265,563 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,909,165 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 9,693,390 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2010/026466 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 15 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 18, 2009 Reel 23678, frame 144 | Beninghaus, James; Ngo, William; Kasten, Welly; Hendin, Neil | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2010 Reel 25204, frame 809 | Palm, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 3, 2013 Reel 30341, frame 459 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 18, 2013 Reel 31837, frame 659 | Palm, Inc. | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 18, 2013 Reel 31837, frame 544 | Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p. | Palm, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 28, 2014 Reel 32132, frame 1 | Hewlett-Packard Company; Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.; Palm, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1017 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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