Term ends Jul 28, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 28, 2035
Held by Juniper Networks, Inc.
Filed Apr 21, 2016 as application 15/135,376 · Granted Jul 17, 2018
Base term plus 127 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2015
Jul 28, 2015
Term ends
Jul 28, 2035
Jul 28, 2035
Granted
Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018
base term
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
127
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 9,363,784, US 9,967,803.
2 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.
This patent's term runs 127 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 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 Jul 28, 2015, when application 14/811,689, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 21, 2016) | Jul 28, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +127 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 2, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,363,784, US 9,967,803) | capped to Jul 28, 2035 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 28, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,219,166 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,363,784 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,743,254 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,028,199 | this patent Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,967,803 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2017/036163 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,536,894 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,932,141 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2018 Reel 46131, frame 898 | Friday, Robert; Castagnoli, Neal Dante; Frei, Randall Wayne | Mist Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 30, 2019 Reel 48196, frame 230 | Friday, Robert; Castagnoli, Neal Dante; Frei, Randall Wayne | Mist Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2020 Reel 53539, frame 912 | Mist Systems, Inc. | Juniper Networks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2023 Reel 65427, frame 422 | Friday, Robert J.; Frei, Randall | Juniper Networks, Inc. | Confirmatory Assignment |
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What's changing
Jul 2035
Term ends Jul 28, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 127 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 9,363,784, US 9,967,803.
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.