Term ended Jul 19, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 27, 2025
Held by PayPal, Inc.
Filed May 27, 2005 as application 11/140,273 · Granted Dec 7, 2010
Base term plus 53 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 19, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
May 27, 2005
May 27, 2005
Term ended
Jul 19, 2025
Jul 19, 2025
Granted
Dec 7, 2010
Dec 7, 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
53
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.
21
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 53 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 May 27, 2005, when this application, 11/140,273, was filed | May 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +53 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 19, 2025 | 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 | Jul 19, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,848,765 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,326,315 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 8,909,248 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,862,150 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,654,923 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,668,096 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| Application 14/624,083 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,321,264 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
8 of 21 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 17, 2006 Reel 17478, frame 441 | Phillips, Alan; Schroth, Frank; Palmer, Geoffrey M.; Zielinski, Stefan G.; Smith, Allen P.; Cunningham, Colin M. | Ulocate Communications, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 16, 2010 Reel 24999, frame 336 | Ulocate Communications, Inc. | Where, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Sep 28, 2011 Reel 26998, frame 686 | Where, Inc. | Where, LLC. | Change of Name |
| Jan 25, 2012 Reel 27588, frame 674 | Where, LLC. | eBay Inc. | Corrective Document to Corrrect an Error in the Title and Application Serial No. Made in Exhibit A" for Referenced Matter (2043.979US1), Application Serial No. 11/140,273, Title "Location-Baded Services", Previously Recorded on Reel 027415 and Frame 0275-0278. |
| Jul 23, 2015 Reel 36163, frame 469 | eBay Inc. | PayPal, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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The 53 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
600
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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