Term ends May 9, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 17, 2031
Held by Goliath Solutions, LLC
Filed Aug 29, 2014 as application 14/473,416 · Granted Oct 31, 2017
Base term plus 563 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2011
Oct 17, 2011
Term ends
May 9, 2032
May 9, 2032
Granted
Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 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
563
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 8,823,521.
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.
2
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 563 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 Oct 17, 2011, when application 13/274,419, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 29, 2014) | Oct 17, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +563 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 2, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,823,521) | capped to May 9, 2032 | 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 | May 9, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,823,521 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 9,805,334 | this patent May 2032 | May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2016 Reel 40700, frame 757 | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 11, 2019 Reel 48876, frame 698 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Dammeyer, Tom | Security Interest |
| May 21, 2019 Reel 49239, frame 839 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Dammeyer, Tom | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jan 31, 2020 Reel 51765, frame 674 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Cac, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2020 Reel 51799, frame 818 | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Cac, LLC | Foreclosure Assigment |
| Feb 20, 2020 Reel 51986, frame 127 | Cac, LLC | BLE Solutions, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 51909, frame 923 | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Shelfbucks, Inc.; Cac, LLC; BLE Solutions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 52005, frame 294 | Dammeyer, Tom; Cac, LLC | BLE Solutions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 Reel 52005, frame 318 | BLE Solutions, LLC | ABL IP Holding, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Shelfbucks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Cac, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 24, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Osa Acquisition, LLC | BLE Solutions, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 16, 2021 Reel 55609, frame 277 | Overhultz, Gary L.; Pyne, John W.; Hardman, Gordon E. | Goliath Solutions, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 16, 2021 Reel 55614, frame 176 | Vogen Funding, L.p.; Goliath Solutions, LLC | Osa Acquisition, LLC | Secured Party Bill of Sale and Transfer Statement |
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.
What's changing
May 2032
Term ends May 9, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 563 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 8,823,521.
Citations
49
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.