Lapsed Mar 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 27, 2027
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Red Hat, Inc.
Filed Nov 27, 2007 as application 11/945,947 · Granted Mar 26, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1271 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 26, 2025
2007
2031
Clock starts
Nov 27, 2007
Nov 27, 2007
No longer in force
Mar 26, 2025
Mar 26, 2025
Granted
Mar 26, 2013
Mar 26, 2013
Term would have run to
May 21, 2031
May 21, 2031
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
1,271
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.
38
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 May 21, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 1271 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 27, 2007, when this application, 11/945,947, was filed | Nov 27, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1271 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 21, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,086,917 | In force no later than May 2030 | no later than May 2030 |
| US 8,949,825 | In force no later than May 2031 | no later than May 2031 |
| US 8,612,971 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 9,697,019 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,234,640 | In force no later than Mar 2030 | no later than Mar 2030 |
| US 8,407,688 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,038,062 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| US 9,015,703 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
8 of 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2008 Reel 20522, frame 491 | Fitzgerald, Joseph J.; Barenboim, Oleg; McCullough, Gregory; Tanzillo, Gregg; Oliveri, Richard; Clarizio, Daniel A. | Manageiq, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 5, 2018 Reel 45445, frame 665 | Manageiq, Inc. | Red Hat, Inc. | Merger |
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Note
The 1271 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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