Term ends Apr 23, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 23, 2032
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Verimatrix
Filed Jan 31, 2013 as application 13/755,944 · Granted Aug 19, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012
Term ends
Apr 23, 2032
Apr 23, 2032
Granted
Aug 19, 2014
Aug 19, 2014
base term
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.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Apr 23, 2012, when application PCT/US2012/034649, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 31, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 23, 2032 | 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 | None on file | no change | 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 | Apr 23, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 13/099,112 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,813,246 | this patent Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 9,202,024 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2013 Reel 30263, frame 838 | Hierro, Oscar; Domenici, Guido | Inside Secure | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 27, 2019 Reel 48449, frame 887 | Inside Secure | Glas Sas, As Security Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 7, 2019 Reel 50647, frame 428 | Inside Secure | Verimatrix | Change of Name |
| Oct 16, 2019 Reel 50733, frame 3 | Verimatrix | Verimatrix | Change of Address |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2032
Term ends Apr 23, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Citations
33
later US patents cite this one
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