Lapsed Jul 5, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 30, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Open Text Inc.
Filed Sep 3, 2020 as application 17/011,398 · Granted Jul 5, 2022
Base term plus 94 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jul 5, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2006
Jun 30, 2006
Term ended
Jul 5, 2026
Jul 5, 2026
Granted
Jul 5, 2022
Jul 5, 2022
base term
after the term ends
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
94
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 10,803,170, US 8,418,250, US 8,726,389, US 8,763,123.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
6
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 30, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 94 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 30, 2006, when application 11/477,807, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 3, 2020) | Jun 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +94 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 2, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,803,170, US 8,418,250, US 8,726,389, US 8,763,123) | capped to Jun 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | lapsed Jul 5, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 5, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,418,250 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 8,763,123 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,726,389 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 10,803,170 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 11,379,582 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 12,282,549 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2020 Reel 53958, frame 602 | Morris, Melvyn; Stubbs, Paul; Hartwig, Markus; Harter, Darren | Prevx Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 2, 2020 Reel 53958, frame 599 | Prevx Limited | Webroot Solutions Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Oct 2, 2020 Reel 53958, frame 595 | Webroot Solutions Ltd. | Webroot Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 29, 2023 Reel 64167, frame 129 | Webroot LLC | Carbonite, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 29, 2023 Reel 64176, frame 622 | Webroot Inc. | Webroot LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Jul 6, 2023 Reel 64351, frame 178 | Carbonite, LLC | Open Text Inc. | Assignment and Assumption Agreement |
Sources
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Note
The 94 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 10,803,170, US 8,418,250, US 8,726,389, US 8,763,123.
Citations
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later US patents cite this one
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