Term ends Sep 23, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 18, 2026
Held by Shopify, Inc.
Filed Jul 10, 2009 as application 12/500,658 · Granted Aug 5, 2014
Base term plus 798 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Jul 18, 2006
Jul 18, 2006
Term ends
Sep 23, 2028
Sep 23, 2028
Granted
Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
798
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
8
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 798 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jul 18, 2006, when application 11/458,285, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 10, 2009) | Jul 18, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +798 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 23, 2028 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 23, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,575,163 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,794,519 | this patent Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 9,342,847 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 9,619,791 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 10,269,053 | Term ended no later than Jul 2026 | no later than Jul 2026 |
| US 10,664,886 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 11,068,956 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 11,455,673 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
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 15, 2009 Reel 22956, frame 913 | Malik, Dale W. | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation (Now Doing Business as AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2019 Reel 49443, frame 798 | Malik, Dale W. | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 022956 Frame: 0913. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jun 12, 2019 Reel 49444, frame 492 | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 12, 2019 Reel 49444, frame 645 | AT&T Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T BLS Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 12, 2019 Reel 49444, frame 768 | AT&T BLS Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jun 12, 2019 Reel 49444, frame 938 | AT&T Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 14, 2019 Reel 51004, frame 895 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Shopify, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2028
Term ends Sep 23, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 798 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.
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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