Term ends Jun 17, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 17, 2031
Held by Shopify, Inc.
Filed Apr 15, 2019 as application 16/383,861 · Granted Jul 20, 2021
Base term plus 104 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jun 17, 2011
Jun 17, 2011
Term ends
Jun 17, 2031
Jun 17, 2031
Granted
Jul 20, 2021
Jul 20, 2021
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
104
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 10,311,891, US 9,613,636, US 9,747,925.
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 104 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 17, 2011, when application 13/162,905, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 15, 2019) | Jun 17, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +104 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 29, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,311,891, US 9,613,636, US 9,747,925) | capped to Jun 17, 2031 | 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 | Jun 17, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,053,750 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 9,613,636 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 9,747,925 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 10,311,893 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 11,069,367 | this patent Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
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 15, 2019 Reel 48882, frame 252 | Gibbon, David C.; Liu, Zhu; Shahraray, Behzad; Zavesky, Eric; Basso, Andrea; Kumar, Sumit; Begeja, Lee; Renger, Bernard S. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 15, 2019 Reel 50063, frame 332 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Shopify, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 19, 2019 Reel 51059, frame 309 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Shopify, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Excution Date from June 30 2019 to July 30 2019 Previously Recorded at Reel: 050063 Frame: 0332. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2031
Term ends Jun 17, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 104 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 10,311,891, US 9,613,636, US 9,747,925.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2021 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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