Term ends Apr 27, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 27, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Red Hat, Inc.
Filed Jun 25, 2015 as application 14/749,760 · Granted Aug 23, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Apr 27, 2007
Apr 27, 2007
Term ends
Apr 27, 2027
Apr 27, 2027
Granted
Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016
base term
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.
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.
7
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. 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 Apr 27, 2007, when application 11/741,535, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 25, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 27, 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 | None on file | no change | 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 | Apr 27, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,681,075 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2007/067948 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,108,722 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,433,951 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,839,034 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 9,069,729 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 9,424,143 | this patent Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2015 Reel 35904, frame 634 | Havemose, Allan; Ngan, Ching-yuk Paul | Availigent, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 25, 2015 Reel 35904, frame 674 | Open Invention Network LLC | Red Hat, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 25, 2015 Reel 36022, frame 533 | Availigent, Inc. | Open Invention Network LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2027
Term ends Apr 27, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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