Term ends Jul 21, 2030 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 5, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Lemon Inc.
Filed Mar 9, 2009 as application 12/400,166 · Granted Mar 17, 2020
Base term plus 1719 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2030
Clock starts
Nov 5, 2005
Nov 5, 2005
Term ends
Jul 21, 2030
Jul 21, 2030
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 2020
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
1,719
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.
347
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 1719 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Nov 5, 2005, when applications 11/267,940 and 11/268,671, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Mar 9, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 5, 2025 | 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 | +1719 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 21, 2030 | 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 | Jul 21, 2030 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,615,719 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 8,103,545 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 10,038,756 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 8,688,671 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Application 11/274,884 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,364,521 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 7,660,581 | In force no later than Feb 2028 | no later than Feb 2028 |
| Application 11/281,902 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 347 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 23, 2009 Reel 22587, frame 108 | Ramer, Jorey; Soroca, Adam; Doughty, Dennis | Jumptap, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2014 Reel 32198, frame 207 | Jumptap, Inc. | Millennial Media, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 25, 2014 Reel 34455, frame 867 | Millennial Media, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2015 Reel 36953, frame 276 | Silicon Valley Bank | Millennial Media, Inc.; Jumptap, Inc.; Neptune Merger Sub I, Inc.; Neptune Merger Sub II, LLC | Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Silicon Valley Bank | Millennial Media, Inc. | Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Silicon Valley Bank | Jumptap, Inc. | Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Silicon Valley Bank | Neptune Merger Sub I, Inc. | Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Silicon Valley Bank | Neptune Merger Sub II, LLC | Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Mar 16, 2016 Reel 38129, frame 283 | Millennial Media, Inc. | Millennial Media LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 13, 2020 Reel 51928, frame 851 | Millennial Media LLC | Oath (Americas) Inc. | Merger |
| Feb 13, 2020 Reel 51929, frame 86 | Oath (Americas) Inc. | Verizon Media Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 22, 2022 Reel 59472, frame 1 | Verizon Media Inc. | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Change of Name |
| May 10, 2022 Reel 59925, frame 354 | Yahoo Ad Tech LLC | Blue Hills, Series 95 of Allied Security Trust I | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Oct 21, 2024 Reel 69192, frame 515 | Blue Hills, Series 95 of Allied Security Trust I | Lemon Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jul 2030
Term ends Jul 21, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1719 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
204
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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