Term ends Jan 24, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends May 30, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Trend Micro incorporated
Filed Jul 1, 2013 as application 13/932,339 · Granted Jul 19, 2016
Base term plus 239 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2028
Clock starts
May 30, 2007
May 30, 2007
Term ends
Jan 24, 2028
Jan 24, 2028
Granted
Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 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
239
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 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.
This patent's term runs 239 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 May 30, 2007, when application 11/807,727, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 1, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 30, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +239 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 24, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 24, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,127,358 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 9,396,333 | this patent Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
2 of 3 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Jan 2028
Term ends Jan 24, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 239 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.