Term ended Feb 4, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 29, 2022
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jun 15, 2026.
Held by Upland Software, Inc.
Filed Dec 18, 2008 as application 12/338,994 · Granted May 13, 2014
Base term plus 829 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 4, 2025
2002
2026
Clock starts
Oct 29, 2002
Oct 29, 2002
Term ended
Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 2025
Granted
May 13, 2014
May 13, 2014
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
829
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 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.
4
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 829 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Oct 29, 2002, when application 10/282,932, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 18, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 29, 2022 | 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 | +829 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 4, 2025 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jun 15, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 4, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,904,270 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,732,566 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,726,015 | this patent Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2011 Reel 26901, frame 505 | Bouchard, Thaddeus | Omtool, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2017 Reel 41368, frame 943 | Omtool, Ltd. | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Agent | Security Interest |
| Aug 7, 2019 Reel 49989, frame 603 | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Agent | Omtool, Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 8, 2019 Reel 50002, frame 536 | Upland Software, Inc.; Upland Software I, Inc.; Upland Software IV, LLC; Upland Software V, Inc.; Upland Software VI, Inc.; Upland Software VII, Inc.; Upland IX, LLC; Ultriva, LLC; Advanced Processing & Imaging, Inc.; Omtool, Ltd.; Rightanswers, Inc.; Waterfall International Inc.; Qvidian Corporation; References-Online, Inc.; Adestra Inc.; Postup Holdings, LLC; Postup Digital, LLC; Daily Inches, Inc. | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch | Security Interest |
| May 6, 2022 Reel 59863, frame 282 | Omtool, Ltd. | Upland Software, Inc. | Merger |
| Mar 25, 2025 Reel 70626, frame 779 | Upland Software Inc.; Upland Software VII, LLC; Omtool, Ltd.; Waterfall International, Inc.; Qvidian Corporation; References- Online, Inc. | Jefferies Finance LLC | Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 Reel 71840, frame 240 | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software, Inc.; Upland Software I, Inc.; Upland Software IV, LLC; Upland Software V, Inc.; Upland Software VI, LLC; Upland Software VII, LLC; Upland IX, LLC; Ultriva, LLC; Advanced Processing & Imaging, Inc.; Omtool, Ltd.; Right Answers, Inc.; Waterfall International Inc.; Qvidian Corporation; References-Online, Inc.; Adestra Inc.; Postup Holdings, LLC; Postup Digital, LLC; Daily Inches, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software I, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software IV, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software V, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software VI, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland Software VII, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Upland IX, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Ultriva, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Advanced Processing & Imaging, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Omtool, Ltd. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Right Answers, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Waterfall International Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Qvidian Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | References-Online, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Adestra Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Postup Holdings, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Postup Digital, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 25, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Jefferies Finance LLC, as Agent | Daily Inches, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 829 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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