Also listed on I4 Licensing LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends May 18, 2027 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 9, 2027
Held by PayPal, Inc.
Filed Mar 16, 2021 as application 17/202,626 · Granted Dec 19, 2023
Base term plus 448 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Jan 9, 2007
Jan 9, 2007
Term ends
May 18, 2027
May 18, 2027
Granted
Dec 19, 2023
Dec 19, 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
448
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,949,920.
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.
9
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 448 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. No maintenance fee can end this term early. Confidence: Low. 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 Jan 9, 2007, when application 11/651,141, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 16, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 9, 2027 | 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 | +448 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 1, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,949,920) | capped to May 18, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 14047791, 11651141, 14047791, 11651141 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 18, 2027 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,554,669 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 8,719,159 | In force no later than Jan 2027 | no later than Jan 2027 |
| US 9,412,132 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 9,684,931 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 10,068,289 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 10,949,920 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 11,847,692 | this patent May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 11,922,494 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2021 Reel 55624, frame 581 | Keithley, Thomas H. | I4 Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 17, 2021 Reel 55624, frame 893 | Bill Me Later, Inc. | eBay Inc. | Merger |
| Mar 17, 2021 Reel 55625, frame 193 | eBay Inc. | PayPal, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2027
Term ends May 18, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 448 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,949,920.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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