Term ends Oct 18, 2032 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by NetApp Inc.

Filed Dec 17, 2019 as application 16/716,759 · Granted Nov 9, 2021

Base term plus 36 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Oct 18, 2032

2012 2032

Clock starts
Oct 18, 2012

Term ends
Oct 18, 2032

Granted
Nov 9, 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

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 9,753,938.

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.

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 36 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 Oct 18, 2012, when application 13/655,263, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 17, 2019)	Oct 18, 2032	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+36 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 23, 2032	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,753,938)	capped to Oct 18, 2032	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	Oct 18, 2032	High confidence

This family

US 9,348,538	In force Mar 2033	Mar 2033
Application PCT/US2013/065699	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,753,938	In force Oct 2032	Oct 2032
US 10,565,165	In force Oct 2032	Oct 2032
US 11,169,967	this patent Oct 2032	Oct 2032
Application 17/520,746	Abandoned not computed	not computed

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Oct 2032

Term ends Oct 18, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 36 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 9,753,938.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below 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

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.

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