Lapsed Aug 24, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 29, 2024
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Feb 11, 2009 as application 12/369,331 · Granted Aug 24, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 24, 2022
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 29, 2004
Mar 29, 2004
No longer in force
Aug 24, 2022
Aug 24, 2022
Granted
Aug 24, 2010
Aug 24, 2010
Term would have run to
Mar 29, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,496,661, to Mar 29, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 29, 2024: 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: 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 Mar 29, 2004, when application 10/812,198, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 11, 2009) | Mar 29, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,496,661) | resolves to Mar 29, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 24, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 24, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,496,661 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 7,843,843 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,783,754 | this patent Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2009 Reel 22301, frame 509 | Morford, Michael Robert; Purvy, Robert E. | Packeteer, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2011 Reel 27307, frame 603 | Packeteer, Inc. | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 16, 2012 Reel 27727, frame 144 | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Jefferies Finance LLC | First Lien Patent Security Agreement |
| Feb 16, 2012 Reel 27727, frame 178 | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Jefferies Finance LLC | Second Lien Patent Security Agreement |
| Oct 16, 2012 Reel 29140, frame 170 | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral Recorded at R/F 027727/0178 |
| Jul 3, 2013 Reel 30740, frame 181 | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent | Second Lien Patent Security Agreement |
| May 22, 2015 Reel 35751, frame 348 | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Jefferies Finance LLC, as the Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| May 29, 2015 Reel 35797, frame 280 | Jefferies Finance LLC | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral at Reel/Frame No. 30740/0181 |
| May 29, 2015 Reel 35798, frame 6 | Jefferies Finance LLC | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral at Reel/Frame No. 27727/0144 |
| Aug 1, 2016 Reel 39516, frame 929 | Jefferies Finance LLC | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 27, 2016 Reel 39851, frame 44 | Blue Coat Systems, Inc. | Symantec Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 21, 2019 Reel 51144, frame 918 | Symantec Corporation | CA, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,496,661, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
207
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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