Lapsed May 24, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 20, 2026
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Nov 20, 2006 as application 11/561,753 · Granted May 24, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 881 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 24, 2023
2006
2029
Clock starts
Nov 20, 2006
Nov 20, 2006
No longer in force
May 24, 2023
May 24, 2023
Granted
May 24, 2011
May 24, 2011
Term would have run to
Apr 19, 2029
Apr 19, 2029
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
881
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.
2
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 Apr 19, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 881 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 Nov 20, 2006, when this application, 11/561,753, was filed | Nov 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +881 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 19, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 24, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 24, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,949,949 | this patent May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 9,158,507 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
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 23, 2007 Reel 18928, frame 827 | Simonyi, Charles; Clifford, Shane J. | Intentional Software Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 4, 2020 Reel 53700, frame 216 | Intentional Software Corporation | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 881 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.