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US 9,268,538 In force
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 31, 2018 (Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P.).

Term ends Sep 27, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Apr 4, 2008 as application 12/062,511 · Granted Feb 23, 2016
Base term plus 2367 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2034
Clock starts
Apr 4, 2008
Term ends
Sep 27, 2034
Granted
Feb 23, 2016
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
2,367
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.
6
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 2367 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 4, 2008, when this application, 12/062,511, was filedApr 4, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+2367 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 27, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 27, 2034High confidence

This family

US 8,839,232In force
Jan 2031
Jan 2031
US 9,268,538this patent
Sep 2034
Sep 2034
Application 12/200,301Abandoned
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Application 12/432,086Abandoned
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US 10,387,130In force
Feb 2029
Feb 2029
Application 14/487,091Abandoned
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 23, 2008
Reel 21280, frame 233
Taylor, Jacob; Itani, Majed; Smith, RogerSugarcrm, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 31, 2018
Reel 46673, frame 434
Sugarcrm Inc., as GrantorGoldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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