Term ended Aug 3, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 3, 2026
Held by BGC Partners, Inc.
Filed Jun 20, 2024 as application 18/748,184 · Granted Apr 14, 2026
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 3, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Aug 3, 2006
Aug 3, 2006
Term ended
Aug 3, 2026
Aug 3, 2026
Granted
Apr 14, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,651,423, to Aug 3, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Aug 3, 2006, when application 11/499,496, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 20, 2024); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 3, 2026 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,651,423) | resolves to Aug 3, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 18144914, 17400201, 13936789, 13936789 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 3, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,484,122 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 10,395,310 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 11,094,004 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 11,651,423 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application 18/144,914 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,602,723 | this patent Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,651,423, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
We have no citation count for this patent yet. That is not the same as never having been cited.
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
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