Also listed on Electric Cloud, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 9, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 3, 2026
Held by Cloudebees, Inc.
Filed Oct 3, 2006 as application 11/543,327 · Granted Feb 8, 2011
Base term plus 1163 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2029
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2006
Oct 3, 2006
Term ends
Dec 9, 2029
Dec 9, 2029
Granted
Feb 8, 2011
Feb 8, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,163
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.
2
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 1163 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Oct 3, 2006, when this application, 11/543,327, was filed | Oct 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1163 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 9, 2029 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 9, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,886,265 | this patent Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2007/021220 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 22, 2006 Reel 18685, frame 1 | Ousterhout, John; Wallgren, Anders; Tamhankar, Sandeep; Stanton, Scott; Muzaffar, Usman | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 5, 2016 Reel 39255, frame 292 | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Comerica Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 23, 2016 Reel 40759, frame 644 | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 28, 2016 Reel 40787, frame 473 | Comerica Bank | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 30, 2016 Reel 40811, frame 173 | Electric Cloud, Inc. | WF Fund V Limited Partnership | Security Interest |
| Jan 9, 2018 Reel 45028, frame 880 | WF Fund V Limited Partnership, C/O/B/ as Wellington Financial LP and Wellington Financial Fund V | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Assignment and Assumption of Security Interests |
| Apr 12, 2019 Reel 48870, frame 890 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 12, 2019 Reel 48870, frame 921 | Western Alliance Bank | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 29, 2019 Reel 49314, frame 377 | Cloudbees, Inc. | Golub Capital LLC, as Administrative Agent | Second Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Jun 1, 2020 Reel 52804, frame 275 | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Cloudbees, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2020 Reel 53045, frame 442 | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Cloudebees, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 24, 2021 Reel 58207, frame 183 | Cloudbees, Inc. | Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit II LLC | Security Interest |
| Nov 29, 2021 Reel 58252, frame 867 | Golub Capital LLC, as Agent | Cloudbees, Inc.; Electric Cloud, Inc. | Termination and Release of Second Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Nov 29, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Golub Capital LLC, as Agent | Cloudbees, Inc. | Termination and Release of Second Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Nov 29, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Golub Capital LLC, as Agent | Electric Cloud, Inc. | Termination and Release of Second Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Mar 9, 2026 Reel 74010, frame 480 | Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit II LLC | Cloudbees, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Dec 2029
Term ends Dec 9, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1163 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 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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