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Method and System for Providing Document Retention Using Cryptography

US 9,286,484 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 15, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 13, 2013 as application 14/106,223 · Granted Mar 15, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 15, 2024
2004 2026
Clock starts
Mar 30, 2004
No longer in force
Mar 15, 2024
Granted
Mar 15, 2016
Term would have run to
Mar 30, 2024
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
2
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 Mar 30, 2024: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 30, 2004, when application 10/815,251, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 13, 2013)Mar 30, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 15, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 15, 2024High confidence

This family

US 8,613,102In force
Aug 2028
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US 9,286,484this patent
Mar 2024
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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
Feb 4, 2016
Reel 37667, frame 273
Guardian Data Storage LLCIntellectual Ventures I LLCMerger
May 6, 2019
Reel 49090, frame 819
PSS Systems, Inc.Guardian Data Storage, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 17, 2019
Reel 49214, frame 747
Intellectual Ventures I LLCIntellectual Ventures Assets 131 LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 21, 2019
Reel 49242, frame 574
Intellectual Ventures Assets 131 LLCCitrix Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 30, 2022
Reel 62079, frame 1
Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62112, frame 262
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62113, frame 1
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentSecond Lien Patent Security Agreement
Oct 7, 2022
Reel 62113, frame 470
Tibco Software Inc.; Citrix Systems, Inc.Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023
Reel 63339, frame 525
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCitrix 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 AgentPatent Security Agreement
Apr 14, 2023
reel/frame not recorded
Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentCitrix 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 AgentCloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release and Reassignment of Security Interest in Patent (Reel/Frame 062113/0001)
Nov 2, 2024
Reel 69291, frame 492
Bank Of America, N.a.Citrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062112/0262
Nov 2, 2024
Reel 69291, frame 503
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCitrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 063340/0164
Nov 2, 2024
Reel 69291, frame 514
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCitrix Systems, Inc.; Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062113/0470
Nov 2, 2024
Reel 69291, frame 536
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCitrix Systems, Inc.Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062079/0001
Nov 2, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Bank Of America, N.a.Citrix Systems, Inc.Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062112/0262
Nov 2, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Bank Of America, N.a.Cloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062112/0262
Nov 2, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCitrix Systems, Inc.Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 063340/0164
Nov 2, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 063340/0164
Nov 2, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCitrix Systems, Inc.Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062113/0470
Nov 2, 2024
reel/frame not recorded
Wilmington Trust, National AssociationCloud Software Group, Inc. (F/K/A Tibco Software Inc.)Release of Certain Patent Security Interests at Reel/Frame 062113/0470
Dec 12, 2024
Reel 69571, frame 1
Citrix Systems, Inc.Progress Software CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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