Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 30, 2023 (The Bank of New York Mellon).
Lapsed Aug 1, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 4, 2025
Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Open Text S.A. ULC
Filed Nov 10, 2014 as application 14/537,572 · Granted Aug 1, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 443 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 1, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 4, 2005
Mar 4, 2005
No longer in force
Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025
Granted
Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017
Term would have run to
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
base term
patent term adjustment
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
443
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
3
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 May 21, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 443 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Mar 4, 2005, when application 11/072,687, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 10, 2014) | Mar 4, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +443 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 21, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 1, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 1, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,260,764 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 8,903,799 | Term ended no later than Mar 2025 | no later than Mar 2025 |
| US 9,721,016 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34604, frame 31 | Gruber, Thomas Robert | Vignette Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34714, frame 685 | Vignette Corporation (4%) | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34716, frame 254 | Vignette Corporation (96%) | Vignette LLC. | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34717, frame 266 | Vignette LLC (96%) | Vignette Software LLC. | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34604, frame 42 | Vignette Software, LLC | Vignette Corporation | Merger |
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34715, frame 291 | Vignette Corporation | Vignette Operating, LLC. | Conversion |
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34717, frame 309 | Vignette Operating, LLC. | Vignette Partnership, LP | Conversion |
| Feb 18, 2015 Reel 34978, frame 816 | Vignette Partnership, LP. | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 627 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 500 | Op IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 578 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
| May 7, 2023 Reel 63559, frame 758 | Open Text S.A. ULC | Barclays Bank PLC | Security Interest |
| Aug 30, 2023 Reel 64761, frame 256 | Open Text S.A. ULC | The Bank of New York Mellon | Security Interest |
| Jun 21, 2024 Reel 67807, frame 53 | Barclays Bank PLC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Release of Security Interest in Patents (Reel/Frame 063559/0628) |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 443 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Aug 1, 2025. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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