Term ended Dec 30, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2023
Held by Meta Platforms, Inc.
Filed Jul 19, 2011 as application 13/185,917 · Granted Nov 5, 2013
Base term plus 211 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 30, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2003
Dec 30, 2003
Term ended
Dec 30, 2023
Dec 30, 2023
Granted
Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 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
211
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,987,236.
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.
10
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 211 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Dec 30, 2003, when application 10/747,694, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 19, 2011) | Dec 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +211 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 28, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,987,236) | capped to Dec 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 30, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,644,166 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,672,439 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2004/006334 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,693,944 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 8,565,397 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,924,996 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 7,987,236 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 8,577,977 | this patent Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2011 Reel 26614, frame 626 | Appelman, Barry; Murphy, Stephen Vaughan | America Online, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 19, 2011 Reel 26614, frame 822 | AOL Inc.; AOL LLC | AOL Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 19, 2011 Reel 26616, frame 980 | America Online, Inc. | AOL LLC | Change of Name |
| Jul 27, 2011 Reel 26661, frame 693 | AOL LLC | AOL Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignment Previously Recorded on Reel 026614 Frame 0822. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Deletion of First Assignor Aol Inc.. |
| Aug 16, 2011 Reel 26759, frame 227 | AOL LLC | AOL Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Execution Date of the Assignment from Aol LLC to Aol Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 026661 Frame 0693. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the December 4, 2009. |
| Jun 28, 2012 Reel 28463, frame 125 | AOL Inc. | Facebook, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2021 Reel 58961, frame 436 | Facebook, Inc. | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Change of Name |
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Note
The 211 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,987,236.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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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