Term ended Sep 21, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 21, 2026
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,979,340, US 8,452,691), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Overstock.com, Inc.
Filed May 28, 2013 as application 13/903,819 · Granted Sep 24, 2019
Base term plus 359 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Sep 21, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2006
Sep 21, 2006
Term ended
Sep 21, 2026
Sep 21, 2026
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 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
359
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 7,979,340, US 8,452,691, US 8,719,075.
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.
3
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 359 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Sep 21, 2006, when application 11/524,985, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 28, 2013) | Sep 21, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +359 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 15, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,979,340, US 8,452,691, US 8,719,075) | capped to Sep 21, 2026 | Medium 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 | Sep 21, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,979,340 | In force no later than Oct 2027 | no later than Oct 2027 |
| US 8,452,691 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 10,423,997 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2019 Reel 50015, frame 444 | Macdonald Korth, Holly C.; Peterson, Samuel Jacob | Overstock.com, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 359 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 7,979,340, US 8,452,691, US 8,719,075.
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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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