Term ends Jul 11, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 11, 2027
Held by Expedia, Inc.
Filed Sep 9, 2016 as application 15/260,516 · Granted Jul 30, 2019
Base term plus 307 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Jul 11, 2007
Jul 11, 2007
Term ends
Jul 11, 2027
Jul 11, 2027
Granted
Jul 30, 2019
Jul 30, 2019
base term
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
307
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 9,477,981.
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.
16
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 307 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 1 maintenance fees is 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 Jul 11, 2007, when application 11/776,019, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 9, 2016) | Jul 11, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +307 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 13, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,477,981) | capped to Jul 11, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 11, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,185,434 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,224,694 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2010/040551 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,458,021 | In force no later than Jul 2027 | no later than Jul 2027 |
| US 8,458,022 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,458,023 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,719,084 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 9,477,981 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
8 of 16 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2024 Reel 67105, frame 788 | Bous, Joseph | Netstartups, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2024 Reel 69746, frame 836 | Netstartups LLC | Expedia, Inc. | Asset Purchase Agreement |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jul 2027
Term ends Jul 11, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 307 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 9,477,981.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.