Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 30, 2023 (The Bank of New York Mellon).
Lapsed Jan 5, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 31, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Open Text S.A. ULC
Filed Dec 9, 2009 as application 12/634,267 · Granted Jan 5, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 120 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jan 5, 2024
2006
2027
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2006
Oct 31, 2006
No longer in force
Jan 5, 2024
Jan 5, 2024
Granted
Jan 5, 2016
Jan 5, 2016
Term would have run to
Jan 9, 2027
Jan 9, 2027
base term
patent term adjustment
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
120
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 7,653,185.
1 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.
3
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 9, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 120 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 31, 2006, when application 11/591,446, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2009) | Oct 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +120 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 28, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,653,185) | capped to Jan 9, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 5, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 5, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2006/042731 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,653,185 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 9,232,007 | this patent Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2010 Reel 23942, frame 697 | Captaris, Inc. | Open Text Inc. | Merger |
| Apr 30, 2010 Reel 24319, frame 572 | Rebert, Treber; Isabelle, Jonathan; Webster, Jason K. | Captaris, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 17, 2011 Reel 27292, frame 666 | Open Text Inc. | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 30, 2016 Reel 39872, frame 605 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Aug 30, 2016 Reel 39872, frame 662 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
| Aug 30, 2016 Reel 39986, frame 689 | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| May 7, 2023 Reel 63559, frame 758 | Open Text S.A. ULC | Barclays Bank PLC | Security Interest |
| Aug 30, 2023 Reel 64761, frame 256 | Open Text S.A. ULC | The Bank of New York Mellon | Security Interest |
| Jun 21, 2024 Reel 67807, frame 53 | Barclays Bank PLC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Release of Security Interest in Patents (Reel/Frame 063559/0628) |
Sources
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Note
The 120 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 7,653,185.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 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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