Term ends Nov 5, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 7, 2028
Filed Mar 7, 2008 as application 12/073,642 · Granted Nov 5, 2019
Base term plus 1338 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2031
Clock starts
Mar 7, 2008
Mar 7, 2008
Term ends
Nov 5, 2031
Nov 5, 2031
Granted
Nov 5, 2019
Nov 5, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,338
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
56
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 1338 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 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 Mar 7, 2008, when this application, 12/073,642, was filed | Mar 7, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1338 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 5, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 5, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,181,238 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,136,122 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 8,140,454 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 10,467,576 | this patent Nov 2031 | Nov 2031 |
| US 8,171,492 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 8,301,687 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 8,453,163 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
| US 9,002,801 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
8 of 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 2008 Reel 20663, frame 665 | Yendluri, Prasad | Software AG, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2019 Reel 49193, frame 681 | Yendluri, Prasad | Software AG USA, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name and Address Previously Recorded on Reel 020663 Frame 0665. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Sep 25, 2024 Reel 68693, frame 619 | Software AG USA, Inc. | Software AG, Inc. | Merger |
| Sep 26, 2024 Reel 69064, frame 575 | Software AG, Inc. | Sag 1, LLC | Change of Name |
| Oct 31, 2024 Reel 69287, frame 635 | Sag 1, LLC | Software AG, LLC | Change of Name |
| Nov 19, 2024 Reel 69319, frame 220 | Software AG, LLC | Super Ipaas Integration LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2024 Reel 69440, frame 958 | Super Ipaas Integration LLC | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2031
Term ends Nov 5, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1338 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
10
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.
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