Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 30, 2022 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).

Term ends May 3, 2033 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

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

Held by Citrix Systems, Inc.

Filed Oct 3, 2013 as application 14/044,946 · Granted Aug 18, 2015

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends May 3, 2033

2013 2033

Clock starts
May 3, 2013

Term ends
May 3, 2033

Granted
Aug 18, 2015

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.

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.

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. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 May 3, 2013, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Oct 3, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	May 3, 2033	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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 3, 2033	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,378,359	In force Oct 2032	Oct 2032
US 9,280,377	In force May 2033	May 2033
US 9,215,225	In force May 2033	May 2033
US 10,284,627	In force Nov 2033	Nov 2033
Application 14/022,935	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 8,650,303	Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026	Feb 2026
Application PCT/US2013/060047	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
Application PCT/US2013/060388	PCT application no patent term	no patent term

8 of 30 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
Nov 6, 2013 Reel 31550, frame 839	Barton, Gary; Walker, James R; Desai, Nitin; Lang, Zhongmin	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 30, 2022 Reel 62079, frame 1	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association	Security Interest
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62112, frame 262	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62113, frame 1	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Second Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022 Reel 62113, frame 470	Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63339, frame 525	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Citrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023 Reel 63340, frame 164	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Citrix Systems, Inc.	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Apr 14, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)	Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
May 24, 2024 Reel 67662, frame 568	Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.); Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Aug 15, 2025 Reel 72488, frame 172	Cloud Software Group, Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement

Sources

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What's changing

May 2033

Term ends May 3, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

624

later US patents cite this one

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