Term ends Feb 13, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 20, 2025
Held by Adobe Inc.
Filed Jun 11, 2015 as application 14/736,720 · Granted Jun 11, 2019
Base term plus 785 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Dec 20, 2005
Dec 20, 2005
Term ends
Feb 13, 2028
Feb 13, 2028
Granted
Jun 11, 2019
Jun 11, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
785
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 9,081,863, to Feb 13, 2028. 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.
This patent's term runs 785 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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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 Dec 20, 2005, when applications 11/313,588 and 11/313,970, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jun 11, 2015) | Dec 20, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +785 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 13, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,081,863) | resolves to Feb 13, 2028, 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 13, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,991,732 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,081,863 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2006/020550 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/020548 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,318,598 | this patent Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
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 11, 2015 Reel 35823, frame 399 | Error, Brett Michael; Wong, Catherine | Omniture, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 11, 2015 Reel 35890, frame 345 | Omniture, Inc. | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48525, frame 42 | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Adobe Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.
What's changing
Feb 2028
Term ends Feb 13, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 785 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 9,081,863, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.