Term ended Dec 14, 2024 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Salesforce.com, Inc.

Filed May 2, 2013 as application 13/886,209 · Granted Jun 30, 2015

Base term plus 16 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Dec 14, 2024

2004 2026

Clock starts
Dec 14, 2004

Term ended
Dec 14, 2024

Granted
Jun 30, 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

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 7,721,328, US 8,949,963.

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.

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 16 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 14, 2004, when application 11/012,639, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 2, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Dec 14, 2024	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	+16 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Dec 30, 2024	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,721,328, US 8,949,963)	capped to Dec 14, 2024	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 14, 2024	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,721,328	In force Jul 2027	Jul 2027
US 8,949,963	Term ended Dec 2024	Dec 2024
US 9,071,594	this patent Dec 2024	Dec 2024
US 9,450,946	Term ended Dec 2024	Dec 2024
US 9,800,586	Term ended Dec 2024	Dec 2024
US 10,333,941	Term ended Dec 2024	Dec 2024

6 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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

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Note

The 16 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 7,721,328, US 8,949,963.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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