Lapsed Oct 12, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 8, 2039
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Job.com LLC
Filed Nov 27, 2019 as application 16/698,182 · Granted Oct 12, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 133 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 12, 2025
2019
2039
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2019
Feb 8, 2019
No longer in force
Oct 12, 2025
Oct 12, 2025
Granted
Oct 12, 2021
Oct 12, 2021
Term would have run to
Jun 21, 2039
Jun 21, 2039
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
133
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
3
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 21, 2039: its 20-year base term plus 133 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Feb 8, 2019, when application 16/271,521, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 27, 2019) | Feb 8, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +133 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 21, 2039 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 12, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 12, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,530,577 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 11,146,394 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Application 17/486,461 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2020 Reel 52819, frame 938 | Ramalingam, Shankar; Inman, William; Pazhoor, Mohamed; Austin, Daniel | Talenting, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 26, 2021 Reel 56356, frame 591 | Kumar, Vinay | Talenting, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 27, 2021 Reel 56373, frame 186 | Talenting, Inc. | My Job Matcher, Inc. D/B/A Job.com | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 20, 2025 Reel 71336, frame 662 | My Job Matcher, Inc.; MJM Tech Limited | Lily Grace Investments Pty Ltd. | Security Interest |
| May 19, 2026 Reel 75719, frame 236 | Lily Grace Investments Pty Ltd. | My Job Matcher, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 20, 2026 Reel 75585, frame 715 | Jobs Acquisition Co., LLC | Job.com LLC | Change of Name |
| May 20, 2026 Reel 75586, frame 117 | My Job Matcher, Inc. | Jobs Acquisition Co., LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 133 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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