Lapsed Apr 3, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 2, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Thales DIS France SAS
Filed Jul 1, 2015 as application 14/789,884 · Granted Apr 3, 2018
Base term plus 384 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Apr 3, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 2, 2006
Nov 2, 2006
Term ended
Apr 3, 2026
Apr 3, 2026
Granted
Apr 3, 2018
Apr 3, 2018
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
384
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 7,931,199, US 7,946,490, US 8,269,793, US 8,544,731.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
6
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 Apr 3, 2023: its 20-year base term plus 384 days of term adjustment for 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 Nov 2, 2006, when applications 10/545,833 and PCT/GB2004/000626, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jul 1, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 2, 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 | +384 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 21, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,931,199, US 7,946,490, US 8,269,793, US 8,544,731) | capped to Apr 3, 2023 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 3, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,269,793 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,946,490 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 7,931,199 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 9,934,503 | this patent Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
4 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2015 Reel 36536, frame 878 | Serverside Group Limited | Gemalto S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 22, 2015 Reel 36619, frame 862 | Elgar, Adam; Elgar, Tom | Serverside Group Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 25, 2023 Reel 64716, frame 634 | Gemalto S.A. | Thales DIS France S.A. | Change of Name |
| Sep 12, 2023 Reel 64870, frame 162 | Thales DIS France S.A. | Thales DIS France SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 384 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 7,931,199, US 7,946,490, US 8,269,793, US 8,544,731.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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