Also listed on Micronets, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 10, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 23, 2026
Held by Crowdstrike, Inc.
Filed Nov 30, 2016 as application 15/365,308 · Granted Mar 17, 2020
Base term plus 201 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 23, 2006
May 23, 2006
Term ends
Dec 10, 2026
Dec 10, 2026
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
201
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
40
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 201 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 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 May 23, 2006, when applications 11/439,593, 11/439,594 and 11/439,600, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Nov 30, 2016) | May 23, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +201 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 10, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 10, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,755,673 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,724,969 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,877,689 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 8,145,528 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 8,141,111 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| US 9,648,281 | In force May 2029 | May 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2007/023185 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,934,819 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
8 of 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44071, frame 822 | Gilley, Thomas S; Hoffert, Eric; Pomerance, Brenda; Pop, Razvan | Micronets, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44748, frame 287 | Micronets, Inc. | Vignette Corporation | Merger |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44714, frame 855 | Vignette Corporation | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement (4%) |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44722, frame 623 | Vignette Corporaton | Vignette LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement (96%) |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44722, frame 672 | Vignette LLC | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement (96%) |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44072, frame 694 | Vignette Software LLC | Vignette Corporation | Merger |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44711, frame 235 | Vignette Operating, LLC | Vignette Partnership, LP | Certificate of Conversion |
| Nov 8, 2017 Reel 44722, frame 722 | Vignette Corporation | Vignette Operating, LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Jan 31, 2018 Reel 44782, frame 821 | Vignette Partnership, LP | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 31, 2018 Reel 45204, frame 545 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Jan 31, 2018 Reel 45204, frame 592 | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Jan 31, 2018 Reel 45204, frame 585 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
| May 14, 2024 Reel 67400, frame 102 | Open Text S.A. ULC | Open Text Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 30, 2024 Reel 68123, frame 7 | Open Text Corp. | Crowdstrike, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 10, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 201 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
41
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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