Term ends May 12, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 20, 2034
Held by Shopify, Inc.
Filed Jul 1, 2019 as application 16/459,078 · Granted Jul 18, 2023
Base term plus 265 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014
Term ends
May 12, 2035
May 12, 2035
Granted
Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
265
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,742,690, to May 12, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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 265 days past its 20-year base term on 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 2 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 20, 2014, when application 14/464,212, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 1, 2019) | Aug 20, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +265 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 12, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,742,690) | resolves to May 12, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 12, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,742,690 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 10,374,971 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 11,706,154 | this patent May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 12,250,161 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 12,671,662 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 19/696,889 | Pending 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2019 Reel 50420, frame 241 | Parikh, Anisa; Afshar, Siroos K.; Bajpay, Paritosh; Khowash, Pradeep; Klein, Reuben | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 18, 2019 Reel 50420, frame 444 | AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. | Shopify, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2035
Term ends May 12, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 265 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,742,690, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.