Term ends Aug 9, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2027
Held by Irdeto B.V.
Filed Apr 8, 2015 as application 14/682,073 · Granted Sep 3, 2019
Base term plus 533 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2028
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2007
Feb 23, 2007
Term ends
Aug 9, 2028
Aug 9, 2028
Granted
Sep 3, 2019
Sep 3, 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
533
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 8,161,463, to Aug 9, 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 533 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 Feb 23, 2007, when application 11/709,654, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 8, 2015) | Feb 23, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +533 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 9, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,161,463) | resolves to Aug 9, 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 | Aug 9, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,752,032 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 8,161,463 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application 14/266,252 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,402,547 | this patent Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 9,910,971 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
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 23, 2016 Reel 40759, frame 47 | Johnson, Harold Joseph; Gu, Yuan Xiang; Zhou, Yongxin | Cloakware Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 27, 2016 Reel 41188, frame 825 | Cloakware Corporation | Irdeto Canada Corporation | Change of Name |
| Dec 27, 2016 Reel 41188, frame 882 | Irdeto Canada Corporation | Irdeto B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2028
Term ends Aug 9, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 533 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 8,161,463, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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.