Term ended May 19, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 19, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by salesforce.com, inc.
Filed Aug 19, 2020 as application 16/947,821 · Granted Oct 25, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 19, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
May 19, 2004
May 19, 2004
Term ended
May 19, 2024
May 19, 2024
Granted
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
6
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. Confidence: Medium. 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 May 19, 2004, when application 10/849,602, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 19, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 19, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 19, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,802,007 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 10,178,050 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 10,778,611 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 11,483,258 | this patent May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 11,968,131 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
5 of 6 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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