Collateral for a security interest recorded May 23, 2025 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Surrendered on reissue Sep 24, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 18, 2028
Surrendered on reissue Sep 24, 2024 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE50,142.
Held by DocuSign, Inc.
Filed Nov 10, 2014 as application 14/537,713 · Granted Feb 5, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 664 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Sep 24, 2024
2008
2030
Clock starts
Jul 18, 2008
Jul 18, 2008
No longer in force
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024
Granted
Feb 5, 2019
Feb 5, 2019
Term would have run to
May 13, 2030
May 13, 2030
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
664
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 8,949,706, to May 13, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.
7
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 664 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 18, 2008, when application 12/176,265, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 10, 2014) | Jul 18, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +664 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 13, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,949,706) | resolves to May 13, 2030, 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 | no change | High confidence |
| Reissue | US RE50,142 issued Sep 24, 2024, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252) | surrendered Sep 24, 2024 | High confidence |
| Surrendered on reissue | The steps above, in order | Sep 24, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,949,706 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2008/070566 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,655,961 | In force Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2010/039768 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,634,975 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 10,198,418 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US RE50,142 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2015 Reel 35500, frame 282 | McCabe, Andrew David; Gonser, Thomas H., JR. | DocuSign, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2021 Reel 54943, frame 358 | DocuSign, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| May 22, 2025 Reel 71337, frame 148 | Bank Of America, N.a. | DocuSign, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents (054943/0358) |
| May 23, 2025 Reel 71337, frame 240 | DocuSign, Inc. | Bank Of America, N.a. | Patent Security Agreement |
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Note
The 664 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 8,949,706, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
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