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Software Defined Network Controller

US 11,630,646 In force
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Term ends Mar 27, 2035 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed May 13, 2020 as application 15/930,976 · Granted Apr 18, 2023
Base term plus 211 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Aug 28, 2014
Term ends
Mar 27, 2035
Granted
Apr 18, 2023
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
211
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
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 runs 211 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 28, 2014, when application 14/471,534, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 13, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Aug 28, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+211 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 27, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 27, 2035Medium confidence

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US 11,630,646this patent
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US 12,182,545In force
Aug 2034
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Application 19/006,170Pending
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 5, 2022
Reel 61085, frame 690
Atlassian, Inc.Atlassian US, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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