Term ended Aug 28, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 19, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by salesforce.com, inc.
Filed Mar 26, 2014 as application 14/226,381 · Granted Jan 8, 2019
Base term plus 466 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 28, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
May 19, 2004
May 19, 2004
Term ended
Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025
Granted
Jan 8, 2019
Jan 8, 2019
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
466
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,802,007, to Aug 28, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
6
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 466 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 May 19, 2004, when application 10/849,602, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 26, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 19, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +466 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,802,007) | resolves to Aug 28, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 28, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,802,007 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 10,178,050 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 10,778,611 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 11,483,258 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 11,968,131 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
5 of 6 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Note
The 466 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,802,007, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 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.