Term ends May 7, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 11, 2037
Held by Salesforce, Inc.
Filed Oct 11, 2017 as application 15/730,146 · Granted Sep 8, 2020
Base term plus 208 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017
Term ends
May 7, 2038
May 7, 2038
Granted
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 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
208
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 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
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 208 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 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 Oct 11, 2017, when this application, 15/730,146, was filed | Oct 11, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +208 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 7, 2038 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 7, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,771,270 | this patent May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,082,247 | In force Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| US 11,496,332 | In force Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| US 11,923,998 | In force no later than Oct 2037 | no later than Oct 2037 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2017 Reel 44385, frame 824 | Sullivan, Christopher | Slack Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 30, 2019 Reel 49332, frame 349 | Slack Technologies, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Jul 19, 2021 Reel 57649, frame 882 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Slack Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral at Reel/Frame No. 49332/0349 |
| Aug 2, 2021 Reel 57254, frame 693 | Slack Technologies, Inc.; Skyline Strategies I Inc. | Slack Technologies, Inc. | Merger |
| Aug 2, 2021 Reel 57254, frame 738 | Skyline Strategies II LLC; Slack Technologies, Inc.; Slack Technologies, LLC | Slack Technologies, LLC. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Sep 9, 2021 Reel 57514, frame 930 | Skyline Strategies II LLC; Slack Technologies, Inc. | Slack Technologies, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Newly Merged Entity's New Name, and to Remove the Period Previously Recorded at Reel: 057254 Frame: 0738. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Merger and Change of Name. |
| Jan 23, 2025 Reel 70001, frame 469 | Slack Technologies, LLC | Salesforce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2038
Term ends May 7, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 208 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
74
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.