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US 8,239,941 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 3, 2022 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Lapsed Aug 7, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by McAfee, LLC
Filed Dec 19, 2002 as application 10/325,025 · Granted Aug 7, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1678 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 7, 2024
2002 2027
Clock starts
Dec 13, 2002
No longer in force
Aug 7, 2024
Granted
Aug 7, 2012
Term would have run to
Jul 18, 2027
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
1,678
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.
11
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 Jul 18, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 1678 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 13, 2002, when application 10/319,288, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 19, 2002)Dec 13, 2022High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1678 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 18, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 7, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 7, 2024High confidence

This family

US 8,990,723In force
Jul 2028
Jul 2028
US 7,305,709Term ended
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 8,239,941this patent
Aug 2024
Aug 2024
US 7,624,450Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2017
Nov 2017
US 8,115,769Term ended
no later than Oct 2024
no later than Oct 2024
US 9,177,140In force
Jan 2027
Jan 2027
US 7,555,776Term ended
no later than Dec 2022
no later than Dec 2022
US 8,230,502Term ended
no later than Jan 2023
no later than Jan 2023
8 of 11 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 19, 2002
Reel 13610, frame 311
Lymer, Brent J.; Katchapalayam, Babu; Kingsbury, BradNetworks Associates Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 23, 2005
Reel 16646, frame 513
Networks Associates Technology, Inc.McAfee, Inc.Merger
Aug 24, 2017
Reel 43665, frame 918
McAfee, Inc.McAfee, LLCChange of Name and Entity Conversion
Jan 12, 2018
Reel 45055, frame 786
McAfee, LLCJpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Jan 12, 2018
Reel 45056, frame 676
McAfee, LLCMorgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Security Interest
Oct 22, 2020
Reel 54206, frame 593
McAfee, LLCMorgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045056 Frame 0676. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 22, 2020
Reel 55854, frame 47
McAfee, LLCJpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Patent 6336186 Previously Recorded on Reel 045055 Frame 786. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Oct 26, 2020
Reel 54238, frame 1
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentMcAfee, LLCRelease of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045055/0786
Mar 2, 2022
Reel 59354, frame 213
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral AgentMcAfee, LLCRelease of Intellectual Property Collateral - Reel/Frame 045056/0676
Mar 3, 2022
Reel 59354, frame 335
McAfee, LLCJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Jun 23, 2022
Reel 60792, frame 307
McAfee, LLCJPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentCorrective Assignment to Correct the the Patent Titles and Remove Duplicates in the Schedule Previously Recorded at Reel: 059354 Frame: 0335. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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