Term ends Sep 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 28, 2031
Held by Bitvore Corporation
Filed Oct 16, 2013 as application 14/055,320 · Granted Feb 28, 2017
Base term plus 521 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 28, 2011
Jan 28, 2011
Term ends
Sep 11, 2031
Sep 11, 2031
Granted
Feb 28, 2017
Feb 28, 2017
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
521
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,694,490.
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.
8
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 521 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jan 28, 2011, when application 13/016,929, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 16, 2013) | Jan 28, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +521 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 2, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,694,490) | capped to Sep 11, 2031 | 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 | Sep 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,694,490 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2012/022984 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,626,750 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2013/021119 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,856,107 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,582,551 | this patent Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| Application 14/465,338 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,569,408 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2024 Reel 70070, frame 141 | Bitvore Corp. | McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd. | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2031
Term ends Sep 11, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 521 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,694,490.
Citations
32
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.