Lapsed Nov 24, 2017 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 13, 2022
Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by McAfee, LLC
Filed Apr 16, 2007 as application 11/735,877 · Granted Nov 24, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 81 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 24, 2017
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 13, 2002
Dec 13, 2002
No longer in force
Nov 24, 2017
Nov 24, 2017
Granted
Nov 24, 2009
Nov 24, 2009
Term would have run to
Mar 4, 2023
Mar 4, 2023
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
81
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
1 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.
11
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 Mar 4, 2023: its 20-year base term plus 81 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Dec 13, 2002, when application 10/319,288, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 16, 2007) | Dec 13, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +81 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 4, 2023 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 24, 2017 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 24, 2017 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,990,723 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 7,305,709 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,239,941 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,624,450 | this patent Nov 2017 | Nov 2017 |
| US 8,115,769 | Term ended no later than Oct 2024 | no later than Oct 2024 |
| US 9,177,140 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 7,555,776 | Term ended no later than Dec 2022 | no later than Dec 2022 |
| US 8,230,502 | Term ended no later than Jan 2023 | no later than Jan 2023 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2007 Reel 19169, frame 810 | Lymer, Brent J.; Kingsbury, Brad; Ritter, Chris | McAfee, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 24, 2017 Reel 43665, frame 918 | McAfee, Inc. | McAfee, LLC | Change of Name and Entity Conversion |
| Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45055, frame 786 | McAfee, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45056, frame 676 | McAfee, LLC | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Oct 22, 2020 Reel 54206, frame 593 | McAfee, LLC | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045056 Frame 0676. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest. |
| Oct 22, 2020 Reel 55854, frame 47 | McAfee, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045055 Frame 786. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest. |
| Oct 26, 2020 Reel 54238, frame 1 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | McAfee, LLC | Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045055/0786 |
| Mar 2, 2022 Reel 59354, frame 213 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | McAfee, LLC | Release of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045056/0676 |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 81 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Nov 24, 2017. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2009 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.