Term ends Feb 24, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Entit Software LLC

Filed Dec 2, 2013 as application 14/094,354 · Granted Dec 8, 2015

Base term plus 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 24, 2027

2007 2027

Clock starts
Jan 16, 2007

Term ends
Feb 24, 2027

Granted
Dec 8, 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

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.

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 39 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 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 Jan 16, 2007, when application 11/654,054, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 2, 2013)	Jan 16, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+39 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 24, 2027	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 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Feb 24, 2027	High confidence

This family

US 8,958,562	In force Feb 2029	Feb 2029
Application PCT/US2008/051103	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
Application 14/094,366	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 9,208,491	this patent Feb 2027	Feb 2027
Application 14/992,405	Abandoned not computed	not computed

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
Oct 11, 2017 Reel 44183, frame 577	Entit Software LLC; Arcsight, LLC	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Security Interest
Oct 11, 2017 Reel 44183, frame 718	Attachmate Corporation; Borland Software Corporation; Netiq Corporation; Micro Focus (US), Inc.; Micro Focus Software, Inc.; Entit Software LLC; Arcsight, LLC; Serena Software, Inc.	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Security Interest
Dec 17, 2018 Reel 51198, frame 611	Voltage Security, Inc.	Voltage Security, LLC	Change of Name
Dec 17, 2018 Reel 51199, frame 74	Voltage Security, LLC; Entit Software LLC	Entit Software LLC	Merger and Change of Name
Feb 2, 2023 Reel 62746, frame 399	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Micro Focus LLC (F/K/A Entit Software LLC); Borland Software Corporation; Micro Focus (US), Inc.; Serena Software, Inc.; Attachmate Corporation; Micro Focus Software Inc. (F/K/A Novell, Inc.); Netiq Corporation	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 Reel 63560, frame 1	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Micro Focus LLC (F/K/A Entit Software LLC)	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0577
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Micro Focus LLC (F/K/A Entit Software LLC)	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Borland Software Corporation	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Micro Focus (US), Inc.	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Serena Software, Inc.	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Attachmate Corporation	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Micro Focus Software Inc. (F/K/A Novell, Inc.)	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718
Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Netiq Corporation	Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718

Sources

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

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What's changing

Feb 2027

Term ends Feb 24, 2027. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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