Term ends Mar 24, 2029 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Shutterfly, LLC

Filed May 19, 2011 as application 13/111,540 · Granted Nov 13, 2012

Base term plus 68 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 24, 2029

2009 2029

Clock starts
Jan 15, 2009

Term ends
Mar 24, 2029

Granted
Nov 13, 2012

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

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 68 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 Jan 15, 2009, when application 12/354,576, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 19, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jan 15, 2029	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	+68 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 24, 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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 24, 2029	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,312,381	this patent Mar 2029	Mar 2029
US 8,769,420	In force Jan 2029	Jan 2029
US 9,021,373	In force Jan 2029	Jan 2029
US 9,722,807	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030

4 of 5 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
Dec 7, 2011 Reel 27333, frame 161	Shutterfly, Inc.	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Security Agreement
Sep 10, 2014 Reel 33714, frame 204	Jorasch, Craig	Shutterfly, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 15, 2016 Reel 39024, frame 761	Shutterfly, Inc.	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Security Agreement
Aug 17, 2017 Reel 43542, frame 693	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent	Shutterfly, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Aug 18, 2017 Reel 43601, frame 955	Shutterfly, Inc.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
May 23, 2018 Reel 46216, frame 396	Shutterfly, Inc.; Lifetouch Inc.; Lifetouch National School Studios Inc.	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Sep 26, 2019 Reel 50527, frame 868	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Shutterfly, Inc.; Lifetouch Inc.; Lifetouch National School Studios Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 26, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Shutterfly, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 26, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Lifetouch Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 26, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Lifetouch National School Studios Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50572, frame 508	Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.	Shutterfly Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50574, frame 865	Shutterfly, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association	First Lien Security Agreement
Nov 22, 2019 Reel 51095, frame 172	Shutterfly, Inc.	Shutterfly, LLC	Change of Name
Jun 22, 2026 Reel 75873, frame 501	Snapfish, LLC; Shutterfly, LLC	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Jun 23, 2026 Reel 75813, frame 795	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent	Shutterfly, Inc.	Release of Security Interest at Reel/Frame 50574/0865

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Mar 2029

Term ends Mar 24, 2029. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 68 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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