Maintenance fees coming due

NetApp, Inc.

522 maintenance fees come due in the 12 months from Nov 14, 2026, the next on Nov 14, 2026. Unpaid by May 14, 2027, that one lapses early.

A maintenance fee does not end a patent on its due date. It falls due at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant, and the patent lapses only if the fee is still unpaid at the end of the six month grace period that follows.

Patent	Title	Holder	Status	Fee due	Lapses if unpaid	Expires	Confidence
US 10,289,501	Storage Aggregate Restoration NetApp Inc. In force Fee due Nov 14, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 14, 2027 Term ends Jun 20, 2034 · High confidence	NetApp Inc.	In force	Nov 14, 2026	May 14, 2027	Term ends Jun 20, 2034	High confidence
US 10,289,506	Storage Device Health Status Synchronization NetApp Inc. In force Fee due Nov 14, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 14, 2027 Term ends Aug 7, 2034 · High confidence	NetApp Inc.	In force	Nov 14, 2026	May 14, 2027	Term ends Aug 7, 2034	High confidence
US 10,291,723	Externally Initiated Application Session Endpoint Migration NetApp Inc. In force Fee due Nov 14, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 14, 2027 Term ends Aug 24, 2034 · High confidence	NetApp Inc.	In force	Nov 14, 2026	May 14, 2027	Term ends Aug 24, 2034	High confidence
US 11,650,886	Orchestrator for Orchestrating Operations Between a Computing Environment Hosting Virtual Machines and a Storage Environment NetApp Inc. In force Fee due Nov 16, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 17, 2027 Term ends Mar 29, 2041 · High confidence	NetApp Inc.	In force	Nov 16, 2026	May 17, 2027	Term ends Mar 29, 2041	High confidence
US 11,650,891	Preventing Non-Detectable Data Loss During Site Switchover NetApp Inc. In force Fee due Nov 16, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 17, 2027 Term ends May 18, 2034 · High confidence	NetApp Inc.	In force	Nov 16, 2026	May 17, 2027	Term ends May 18, 2034	High confidence
US 9,037,544	Snapshots and Clones of Volumes in a Storage System NetApp, Inc. In force Fee due Nov 19, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 19, 2027 Term ends Nov 12, 2033 · High confidence	NetApp, Inc.	In force	Nov 19, 2026	May 19, 2027	Term ends Nov 12, 2033	High confidence
US 9,037,800	Speculative Copying of Data from Main Buffer Cache to Solid-State Secondary Cache of a Storage Server NetApp, Inc. In force Fee due Nov 19, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 19, 2027 Term ends Mar 18, 2028 · High confidence	NetApp, Inc.	In force	Nov 19, 2026	May 19, 2027	Term ends Mar 18, 2028	High confidence
US 9,037,900	Small Computer System Interface Input Output (SCSI IO) Referral NetApp, Inc. In force Fee due Nov 19, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 19, 2027 Term ends Dec 15, 2028 · High confidence	NetApp, Inc.	In force	Nov 19, 2026	May 19, 2027	Term ends Dec 15, 2028	High confidence
US 11,656,962	Erasure Coding Repair Availability NetApp, Inc. In force Fee due Nov 23, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 24, 2027 Term ends Nov 22, 2037 · High confidence	NetApp, Inc.	In force	Nov 23, 2026	May 24, 2027	Term ends Nov 22, 2037	High confidence
US 11,659,035	Routing Messages Between Cloud Service Providers NetApp, Inc. In force Fee due Nov 23, 2026 Lapses if unpaid May 24, 2027 Term ends May 11, 2035 · High confidence	NetApp, Inc.	In force	Nov 23, 2026	May 24, 2027	Term ends May 11, 2035	High confidence
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