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Term ends Oct 13, 2033 · High confidence

Filed Mar 15, 2013 as application 13/843,365 · Granted Jun 21, 2016
Base term plus 212 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2013 2033
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2013
Term ends
Oct 13, 2033
Granted
Jun 21, 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
212
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.
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 runs 212 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 Mar 15, 2013, when this application, 13/843,365, was filedMar 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+212 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 13, 2033High 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 orderOct 13, 2033High confidence

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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
Apr 24, 2013
Reel 30278, frame 993
Nakil, Harshad Bhaskar; Marques, Pedro R.; Ajay, Hampapur; Ranjan, Ashish; Singla, AnkurJuniper Networks, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 6, 2026
Reel 76302, frame 450
Juniper Networks, Inc.Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPNunc Pro Tunc Assignment

Sources

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

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