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Document Architecture with Efficient Storage

US 11,699,020 In force
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Term ends May 26, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Feb 8, 2022 as application 17/666,876 · Granted Jul 11, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
May 26, 2017
Term ends
May 26, 2037
Granted
Jul 11, 2023
base term 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 11,263,383, to May 26, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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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. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 26, 2017, when application 15/607,036, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 8, 2022)May 26, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,263,383)resolves to May 26, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 26, 2037High confidence

This family

Application 62/342,459Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,481,537In force
May 2037
May 2037
US 10,534,843In force
Nov 2037
Nov 2037
US 11,263,383In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
US 11,699,020this patent
May 2037
May 2037
US 12,229,490In force
no later than May 2037
no later than May 2037
US 12,204,843In force
May 2037
May 2037
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 24, 2022
Reel 59084, frame 344
Smith, Robert; Lorensson, JohanOpen Text S.A. ULCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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