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Method and Apparatus for a File Sharing and Synchronization System

US 9,037,540 Term ended
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 12, 2024 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Term ended Nov 14, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Nov 8, 2013 as application 14/075,598 · Granted May 19, 2015
Base term plus 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Nov 14, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2005
Term ended
Nov 14, 2025
Granted
May 19, 2015
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
6
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.
17
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 6 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 8, 2005, when application 11/269,498, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 8, 2013)Nov 8, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+6 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 14, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 14, 2025High confidence

This family

Application 11/269,498Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,885,925In force
Jan 2027
Jan 2027
US 8,370,298Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 8,600,934Term ended
no later than Nov 2025
no later than Nov 2025
US 9,037,540this patent
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 10,158,708Term ended
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 11,334,555In force
May 2028
May 2028
US 11,341,114In force
Feb 2028
Feb 2028
8 of 17 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 17, 2014
Reel 33969, frame 891
Fifth Street Finance Corp.Sugarsync, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Nov 11, 2014
Reel 34144, frame 861
Sugarsync, Inc.Dropbox, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 14, 2017
Reel 42254, frame 1
Dropbox, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Mar 10, 2021
Reel 55670, frame 219
Dropbox, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Dec 12, 2024
Reel 69604, frame 611
Dropbox, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Dec 12, 2024
Reel 69613, frame 744
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentDropbox, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Dec 13, 2024
Reel 69635, frame 332
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentDropbox, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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