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Term ends May 29, 2035 · High confidence

Filed Apr 17, 2014 as application 14/255,579 · Granted Mar 28, 2017
Base term plus 407 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Apr 17, 2014
Term ends
May 29, 2035
Granted
Mar 28, 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
407
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.
5
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 407 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 Apr 17, 2014, when this application, 14/255,579, was filedApr 17, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+407 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 29, 2035High 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 orderMay 29, 2035High confidence

This family

US 9,607,073this patent
May 2035
May 2035
Application PCT/US2015/026088PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,642,850In force
May 2035
May 2035
US 11,403,308In force
May 2034
May 2034
US 11,720,583In force
Apr 2034
Apr 2034
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 17, 2014
Reel 32702, frame 269
Schechter, Ian; Wakeling, Tim; Wollrath, Ann M.AB Initio Software LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 8, 2015
Reel 35361, frame 902
AB Initio Software LLCAB Initio Original Works LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 8, 2015
Reel 35362, frame 26
AB Initio Original Works LLCAB Initio Technology LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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