Term ended Mar 22, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 29, 2022
Held by Oracle America, Inc.
Filed Jun 27, 2002 as application 10/185,891 · Granted Sep 28, 2010
Base term plus 1454 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 22, 2026
2002
2026
Clock starts
Mar 29, 2002
Mar 29, 2002
Term ended
Mar 22, 2026
Mar 22, 2026
Granted
Sep 28, 2010
Sep 28, 2010
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
1,454
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
6
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 runs 1454 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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, 2002, when applications 10/109,858, 10/109,972, 10/112,330 and 10/112,420, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jun 27, 2002) | Mar 29, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1454 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 22, 2026 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 22, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/112,420 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/112,330 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,046,307 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| Application 10/109,858 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/185,955 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,805,381 | this patent Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2002 Reel 13285, frame 210 | Habichler, Juergen; Lau, Issac; Weng, Yu Cheng; Deighton, Anthony | Siebel Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 5, 2016 Reel 37702, frame 505 | Siebel Systems, Inc. | Oracle America, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 1454 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 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
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