Lapsed Jul 4, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 17, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Red Hat, Inc.
Filed Oct 17, 2006 as application 11/550,348 · Granted Jul 4, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1662 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jul 4, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2006
Oct 17, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
Granted
Jul 4, 2017
Jul 4, 2017
Term would have run to
Oct 17, 2026
Oct 17, 2026
base term
after the term ends
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
1,662
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 8,458,695, US 8,612,971, US 8,949,826.
1 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.
38
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Oct 17, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 1662 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 17, 2006, when this application, 11/550,348, was filed | Oct 17, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1662 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 6, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,458,695, US 8,612,971, US 8,949,826) | capped to Oct 17, 2026 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 4, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 4, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,086,917 | In force no later than May 2030 | no later than May 2030 |
| US 8,949,825 | In force no later than May 2031 | no later than May 2031 |
| US 8,612,971 | In force Aug 2031 | Aug 2031 |
| US 9,697,019 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,234,640 | In force no later than Mar 2030 | no later than Mar 2030 |
| US 8,407,688 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,038,062 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
| US 9,015,703 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
8 of 38 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2006 Reel 18402, frame 901 | Fitzgerald, Joseph; Barenboim, Oleg | Manageiq, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 5, 2018 Reel 45445, frame 665 | Manageiq, Inc. | Red Hat, Inc. | Merger |
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Note
The 1662 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 8,458,695, US 8,612,971, US 8,949,826.
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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