Term ended Apr 7, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2023
Held by Adobe Inc.
Filed Oct 9, 2008 as application 12/248,831 · Granted May 1, 2012
Base term plus 285 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 7, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2003
Jun 27, 2003
Term ended
Apr 7, 2024
Apr 7, 2024
Granted
May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012
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
285
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.
6
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 285 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 Jun 27, 2003, when application 10/609,008, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 9, 2008) | Jun 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +285 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 7, 2024 | 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 | Apr 7, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,792,844 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,738,609 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Application 12/022,779 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,170,993 | this patent Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 9,053,215 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 9,529,859 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2008 Reel 21663, frame 657 | Error, Christopher Reid; Error, Brett | Omniture, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2009 Reel 23538, frame 77 | Omniture, Inc. | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2019 Reel 48867, frame 882 | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Adobe Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 285 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 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.