Lapsed Sep 23, 2020 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 1, 2020
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Virtu Itg Software Solutions LLC
Filed May 31, 2001 as application 09/870,845 · Granted Sep 23, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1340 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 23, 2020
2000
2026
Clock starts
Jun 1, 2000
Jun 1, 2000
No longer in force
Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020
Granted
Sep 23, 2008
Sep 23, 2008
Term would have run to
Feb 1, 2024
Feb 1, 2024
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,340
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
71
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 Feb 1, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 1340 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 1, 2000, when application 09/585,049, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 31, 2001); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 1, 2020 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1340 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 1, 2024 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 23, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 23, 2020 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,428,506 | this patent Sep 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| US 7,974,906 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 7,904,365 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| US 7,680,722 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,533,048 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 7,752,099 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 8,306,900 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2020 | Nov 2020 |
| US 7,685,052 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
8 of 71 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, 2001 Reel 12296, frame 862 | Waelbroeck, Henri; Federspiel, Fred J.; Angel, James J. | E-Xchange Advantage, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2006 Reel 18789, frame 124 | E-Xchange Advantage, Inc. | Pipeline Financial Group, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 4, 2012 Reel 28317, frame 233 | Pipeline Financial Group, Inc. | Aritas Group, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 28, 2012 Reel 28457, frame 402 | Aritas Group, Inc. | Itg Software Soultions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 4, 2019 Reel 48490, frame 359 | Virtu Itg Software Solutions LLC | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Mar 4, 2019 Reel 48498, frame 602 | Virtu Itg Software Solutions LLC | U.S. Bank National Association | Security Interest |
| Aug 21, 2019 Reel 50128, frame 708 | Itg Software Solutions, Inc. | Virtu Itg Software Solutions LLC | Change of Name |
| Oct 10, 2019 Reel 50707, frame 15 | U.S. Bank National Association | Virtu Itg Software Solutions LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 13, 2022 Reel 58746, frame 799 | Jefferies Finance LLC | Virtu Itg Software Solutions LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1340 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
269
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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