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Automated Filer Technique for Use in Virtualized Appliances and Applications

US 8,364,638 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 29, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Mar 3, 2011 as application 13/003,863 · Granted Jan 29, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 29, 2025
2006 2026
Clock starts
Sep 15, 2006
No longer in force
Jan 29, 2025
Granted
Jan 29, 2013
Term would have run to
Sep 15, 2026
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
7
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Sep 15, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 15, 2006, when application 11/522,050, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 3, 2011)Sep 15, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 29, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 29, 2025High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2006/036130PCT application
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US 8,949,364In force
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US 8,429,630In force
Aug 2029
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Application PCT/US2009/046503PCT application
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US 8,364,638this patent
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US 9,087,076Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2019
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US 9,578,088In force
May 2028
May 2028
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
Jan 13, 2011
Reel 25635, frame 526
Nickolov, Peter; Kalev, Leonid; Tessler, Eric3TERA, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 13, 2011
Reel 25635, frame 686
3TERA, Inc.Computer Associates Think, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 20, 2012
Reel 29507, frame 103
Computer Associates Think, Inc.CA, Inc.Merger

Sources

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