Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 30, 2022 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Term ends Sep 6, 2028 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Citrix Systems, Inc.

Filed Mar 12, 2007 as application 11/685,130 · Granted Dec 6, 2011

Base term plus 544 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Sep 6, 2028

2007 2028

Clock starts
Mar 12, 2007

Term ends
Sep 6, 2028

Granted
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

544

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.

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 544 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 Mar 12, 2007, when this application, 11/685,130, was filed	Mar 12, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+544 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 6, 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	Sep 6, 2028	High confidence

This family

US 8,103,783	In force Oct 2028	Oct 2028
US 7,783,757	In force Mar 2029	Mar 2029
US 8,074,028	this patent Sep 2028	Sep 2028
US 8,504,775	Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025	Aug 2025
US 7,809,818	In force May 2029	May 2029
Application 11/685,137	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 8,037,126	In force Dec 2027	Dec 2027
US 8,701,010	In force Nov 2029	Nov 2029

8 of 15 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
May 31, 2007 Reel 19362, frame 157	Plamondon, Robert	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 30, 2022 Reel 62079, frame 1	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association	Security Interest
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62112, frame 262	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62113, frame 1	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Second Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62113, frame 470	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63339, frame 525	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Citrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63340, frame 164	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
May 24, 2024 Reel 67662, frame 568	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Aug 15, 2025 Reel 72488, frame 172	Cloud Software Group, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement

Sources

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What's changing

Sep 2028

Term ends Sep 6, 2028. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 544 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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