Lapsed Jun 10, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 5, 2029
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Oracle America, Inc.
Filed May 5, 2009 as application 12/435,751 · Granted Jun 10, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 175 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jun 10, 2026
2009
2029
Clock starts
May 5, 2009
May 5, 2009
No longer in force
Jun 10, 2026
Jun 10, 2026
Granted
Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014
Term would have run to
May 5, 2029
May 5, 2029
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
175
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 8,296,427, US 8,832,257.
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.
3
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 5, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 175 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 May 5, 2009, when this application, 12/435,751, was filed | May 5, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +175 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 27, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,296,427, US 8,832,257) | capped to May 5, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 10, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 10, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,751,628 | this patent Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,296,427 | In force May 2029 | May 2029 |
| US 9,942,228 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Hauser, Robert R | Suboti, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 8, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Hauser, Robert R | Lipari, Paul A | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 8, 2009 Reel 22656, frame 430 | Hauser, Robert R | Suboti, LLC; Lipari, Paul A | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 21, 2017 Reel 42120, frame 590 | Suboti LLC; Lipari, Paul | APRFSH17, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2017 Reel 43268, frame 275 | APRFSH17, LLC | Moat, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 21, 2017 Reel 43288, frame 748 | Moat, Inc. | Oracle America, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 175 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 8,296,427, US 8,832,257.
Citations
135
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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