Term ended Mar 27, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 27, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Aug 25, 2025.
Held by Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Filed Mar 4, 2011 as application 13/040,950 · Granted Jul 23, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Mar 27, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Mar 27, 2003
Mar 27, 2003
Term ended
Mar 27, 2023
Mar 27, 2023
Granted
Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,913,303, to Mar 27, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Mar 27, 2003, when application 10/400,938, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 4, 2011) | Mar 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,913,303) | resolves to Mar 27, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Aug 25, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 27, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,913,303 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 8,495,740 | this patent Mar 2023 | Mar 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 6, 2017 Reel 43806, frame 188 | International Business Machines Corporation | Red Hat, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 20, 2020 Reel 54108, frame 277 | Red Hat, Inc. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2021 Reel 55336, frame 173 | International Business Machines Corporation | Alibaba Group Holding Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,913,303, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
43
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.
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
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