Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 20, 2015 (Silicon Valley Bank).
Term ended Jun 23, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 23, 2026
Held by Catalogic Software, Inc.
Filed Nov 29, 2012 as application 13/689,224 · Granted May 3, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jun 23, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jun 23, 2006
Jun 23, 2006
Term ended
Jun 23, 2026
Jun 23, 2026
Granted
May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,346,726, to Jun 23, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
11
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Jun 23, 2006, when application PCT/US2006/024479, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 29, 2012) | Jun 23, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,346,726) | resolves to Jun 23, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 23, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2006/024479 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/024478 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,346,726 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,937,547 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,255,651 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,706,992 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,329,941 | this patent Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,116,847 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2014 Reel 32401, frame 656 | Syncsort Incorporated | Gci Capital Markets LLC, as Administrative Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jun 23, 2014 Reel 33158, frame 76 | Syncsort Incorporated | DPX Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 23, 2014 Reel 33217, frame 48 | DPX Corp. | Catalogic Software, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 15, 2014 Reel 33329, frame 334 | Cgi Capital Markets LLC | Gci Capital Markets, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 27, 2014 Reel 33645, frame 460 | Liu, Peter; Acharya, Soubir | Syncsort Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 20, 2015 Reel 36397, frame 29 | Catalogic Software, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Sep 19, 2019 Reel 50433, frame 90 | Catalogic Software, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| May 24, 2021 Reel 56325, frame 719 | Catalogic Software, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 15, 2021 Reel 56551, frame 581 | Western Alliance Bank | Catalogic Software, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,346,726, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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