Term ends Oct 25, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 25, 2031
Held by Open Text S.A. ULC
Filed Apr 6, 2020 as application 16/841,245 · Granted Feb 9, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Oct 25, 2011
Oct 25, 2011
Term ends
Oct 25, 2031
Oct 25, 2031
Granted
Feb 9, 2021
Feb 9, 2021
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,664,649, to Oct 25, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
9
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Oct 25, 2011, when application 13/280,951, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 6, 2020) | Oct 25, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,664,649) | resolves to Oct 25, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Oct 25, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/406,475 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,566,704 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 9,922,013 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,289,666 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 10,664,649 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 10,915,696 | this patent Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 11,475,208 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 11,727,199 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
8 of 9 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 28, 2020 Reel 52512, frame 67 | Le Bescond de Coatpont, Bertrand G.; Alam, Ruhul; Garcia, Mario L. | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 28, 2020 Reel 52512, frame 257 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Apr 28, 2020 Reel 52512, frame 301 | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Apr 28, 2020 Reel 52512, frame 313 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
| May 14, 2024 Reel 67400, frame 102 | Open Text S.A. ULC | Open Text Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 30, 2024 Reel 68122, frame 301 | Open Text Corp. | Crowdstrike, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 16, 2024 Reel 68918, frame 734 | Le Bescond de Coatpont, Bertrand G.; Alam, Ruhul; Garcia, Mario L. | Open Text, S.a. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 25, 2024 Reel 69268, frame 698 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Nov 19, 2024 Reel 69390, frame 176 | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Dec 18, 2024 Reel 69741, frame 763 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
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What's changing
Oct 2031
Term ends Oct 25, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,664,649, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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