Term ends Sep 5, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 14, 2034
Held by Open Text S.A. ULC
Filed Jan 22, 2018 as application 15/877,010 · Granted Oct 6, 2020
Base term plus 310 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014
Term ends
Sep 5, 2034
Sep 5, 2034
Granted
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 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
310
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 9,898,537.
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.
21
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 310 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 14, 2014, when application 14/210,536, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 22, 2018) | Mar 14, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +310 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 18, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,898,537) | capped to Sep 5, 2034 | 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 | Sep 5, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/782,984 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,182,054 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,898,537 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 10,567,383 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,073,956 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,795,955 | this patent Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,503,878 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,778,686 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
8 of 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2018 Reel 44693, frame 469 | Leclerc, Daniel; Dubois, Maxime; Dowgailenko, Alex; Palmer, Jody Hupton; Lilko, Alexander; Molloy, Steve | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 22, 2018 Reel 45112, frame 339 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Jan 22, 2018 Reel 45112, frame 353 | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Jan 22, 2018 Reel 45112, frame 358 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2034
Term ends Sep 5, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 310 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 9,898,537.
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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.