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US 10,321,264 Term ended
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Term ended May 27, 2025 · High confidence

Held by PayPal, Inc.
Filed Dec 31, 2017 as application 15/859,603 · Granted Jun 11, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended May 27, 2025
2005 2026
Clock starts
May 27, 2005
Term ended
May 27, 2025
Granted
Jun 11, 2019
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
21
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 27, 2005, when application 11/140,273, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 31, 2017)May 27, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 27, 2025High confidence

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US 10,321,264this patent
May 2025
May 2025
8 of 21 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 25, 2019
Reel 49001, frame 719
Phillips, Alan; Schroth, Frank; Palmer, Geoffrey M.; Zielinski, Stefan G.; Smith, Allen P.; Cunningham, Colin M.Ulocate Communications, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 25, 2019
Reel 49011, frame 847
Ulocate Communications, Inc.Where, Inc.Change of Name
Apr 25, 2019
Reel 49011, frame 865
Where, Inc.Where, LLCChange of Name
Apr 25, 2019
Reel 49001, frame 830
Where, LLCeBay Inc.Change of Name
Apr 25, 2019
Reel 49001, frame 847
eBay Inc.PayPal, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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