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US 8,863,002 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 14, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Held by eBay Inc.
Filed Oct 4, 2010 as application 12/897,587 · Granted Oct 14, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 611 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 14, 2026
2005 2027
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2005
No longer in force
Oct 14, 2026
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Term would have run to
Jun 2, 2027
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
611
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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 Jun 2, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 611 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Low. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 29, 2005, when application 11/241,766, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 4, 2010)Sep 29, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+611 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 2, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"lapsed Oct 14, 2026Low confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 14, 2026Low confidence

This family

US 7,882,447In force
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 8,863,002this patent
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
US 11,461,835Term ended
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 2, 2015
Reel 34865, frame 275
Chandler, Corey; Smalley, Preston GranteBay Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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