Term ended Jun 23, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 23, 2026
Held by Catalogic Software, Inc.
Filed May 25, 2018 as application 15/990,349 · Granted Dec 29, 2020
Base term plus 232 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Jun 23, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jun 23, 2006
Jun 23, 2006
Term ended
Jun 23, 2026
Jun 23, 2026
Granted
Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020
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
232
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 9,378,099, US 9,983,951.
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.
11
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 232 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 23, 2006, when application PCT/US2006/024479, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 25, 2018) | Jun 23, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +232 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 10, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,378,099, US 9,983,951) | capped to Jun 23, 2026 | High 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 | Jun 23, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2006/024479 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/024478 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,346,726 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,937,547 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,255,651 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,706,992 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,329,941 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 9,116,847 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2019 Reel 50314, frame 501 | Syncsort Incorporated | DPX Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2019 Reel 50314, frame 638 | DPX Corp. | Catalogic Software, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Sep 9, 2019 Reel 50314, frame 613 | Lad, Kamlesh; Liu, Peter Chi-hsiung | Syncsort Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 232 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 9,378,099, US 9,983,951.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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