Term ends Mar 19, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 18, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by ABL IP Holding, LLC
Filed May 6, 2008 as application 12/115,657 · Granted Dec 6, 2011
Base term plus 883 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Oct 18, 2005
Oct 18, 2005
Term ends
Mar 19, 2028
Mar 19, 2028
Granted
Dec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 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
883
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.
3
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 883 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 18, 2005, when application PCT/US2005/037138, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 6, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +883 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 19, 2028 | 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 | Mar 19, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,614,556 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,070,065 | this patent Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2013 Reel 31012, frame 201 | Vogen Funding, L.p.; Goliath Solutions, LLC | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Secured Party Bill of Sale and Transfer Statement |
| Sep 19, 2013 Reel 31239, frame 574 | O, Gary L.; Hardman, Gordon E.; Pyne, John W. | Goliath Solutions, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2016 Reel 40700, frame 757 | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 11, 2019 Reel 48876, frame 698 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Dammeyer, Tom | Security Interest |
| May 21, 2019 Reel 49239, frame 839 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Dammeyer, Tom | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jan 31, 2020 Reel 51765, frame 674 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Cac, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2020 Reel 51799, frame 818 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Cac, LLC | Foreclosure Assigment |
| Feb 20, 2020 Reel 51986, frame 127 | Cac, LLC | BLE Solutions, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Cac, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Osa Acquisition, LLC | BLE Solutions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 52005, frame 294 | Dammeyer, Tom; Cac, LLC | BLE Solutions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 52005, frame 318 | BLE Solutions, LLC | ABL IP Holding, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 51909, frame 923 | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Shelfbucks, Inc.; Cac, LLC; BLE Solutions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 8, 2021 Reel 57060, frame 231 | Overhultz, Gary L.; Hardman, Gordon E.; Pyne, John W. | Goliath Solutions, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 031239 Frame: 0574. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2028
Term ends Mar 19, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 883 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
53
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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