Collateral for a security interest recorded May 13, 2022 (Ares Capital Corporation).
Term ends Mar 25, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 7, 2031
Held by Bottomline Technlogies, Inc.
Filed Jun 16, 2014 as application 14/305,262 · Granted Jan 3, 2017
Base term plus 262 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Jul 7, 2011
Jul 7, 2011
Term ends
Mar 25, 2032
Mar 25, 2032
Granted
Jan 3, 2017
Jan 3, 2017
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
262
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.
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 262 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 7, 2011, when application 13/135,507, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2014) | Jul 7, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +262 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 25, 2032 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 25, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,776,213 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 9,667,609 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 9,537,848 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2016 Reel 37501, frame 193 | McLaughlin, Brian Smith; Gil, Leonardo B.; Tracy, Marshall Joseph; Mitchell, Erik Vaughn | Bottomline Technologies (de) Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 12, 2016 Reel 40882, frame 908 | Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Mar 19, 2021 Reel 55661, frame 461 | Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. | Bottomline Technlogies, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 16, 2021 Reel 58404, frame 32 | Nagalla, Durgaprasad; Mohanraj, Venkatesh | Bottomline Technologies (de) Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 13, 2022 Reel 60063, frame 701 | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Bottomline Technologies (de), Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Reel/Frame: 040882/0908 |
| May 13, 2022 Reel 60064, frame 275 | Bottomline Technologies, Inc. | Ares Capital Corporation | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 25, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 262 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2017 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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