Term ends Jul 19, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 15, 2033
Filed Mar 15, 2013 as application 13/840,657 · Granted Jul 28, 2015
Base term plus 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2013
Mar 15, 2013
Term ends
Jul 19, 2033
Jul 19, 2033
Granted
Jul 28, 2015
Jul 28, 2015
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
126
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 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.
11
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 126 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Mar 15, 2013, when this application, 13/840,657, was filed | Mar 15, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +126 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 19, 2033 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 19, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,953,441 | In force Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
| US 9,374,270 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 8,959,185 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 8,755,377 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 8,750,288 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 9,094,308 | this patent Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
| US 9,710,762 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2013/044378 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2013 Reel 30573, frame 94 | Ghose, Tirthankar; Nakil, Harshad Bhaskar; Ramesh, Nd | Juniper Networks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2026 Reel 76302, frame 450 | Juniper Networks, Inc. | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2033
Term ends Jul 19, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
155
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.