Lapsed Dec 29, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by CA, Inc.

Filed Dec 21, 2004 as application 11/020,514 · Granted Dec 29, 2009

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 770 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Dec 29, 2021

2004 2027

Clock starts
Dec 21, 2004

No longer in force
Dec 29, 2021

Granted
Dec 29, 2009

Term would have run to
Jan 30, 2027

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

770

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.

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 Jan 30, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 770 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Dec 21, 2004, when this application, 11/020,514, was filed	Dec 21, 2024	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+770 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 30, 2027	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 Dec 29, 2021	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 29, 2021	High confidence

This family

US 7,366,919	Term ended May 2025	May 2025
US 7,640,590	this patent Dec 2021	Dec 2021
US 7,739,494	In force Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 8,001,598	Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2023	Aug 2023
US 8,359,649	Term ended Apr 2023	Apr 2023

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
Dec 21, 2004 Reel 16129, frame 531	McCorkendale, Bruce; Sobel, William E.	Symantec Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 21, 2019 Reel 51144, frame 918	Symantec Corporation	CA, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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Note

The 770 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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.

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