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US 11,461,835 Term ended
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Term ended Sep 29, 2025 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,863,002), so the cap could be lower.

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Nov 9, 2026.

Held by eBay Inc.
Filed Sep 29, 2014 as application 14/500,884 · Granted Oct 4, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Sep 29, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2005
Term ended
Sep 29, 2025
Granted
Oct 4, 2022
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,882,447, US 8,863,002, to Sep 29, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 29, 2005, when application 11/241,766, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2014)Sep 29, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,882,447, US 8,863,002)resolves to Sep 29, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no changeMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Nov 9, 2026, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 29, 2025Medium confidence

This family

US 7,882,447In force
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 8,863,002Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
US 11,461,835this patent
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 29, 2014
Reel 33844, frame 619
Chandler, Corey; Smalley, Preston GranteBay Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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