Also listed on Oracle America, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ended no later than Feb 14, 2017 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 14, 2017
Held by Oracle International Corporation
Filed Jan 11, 2002 as application 10/046,976 · Granted Dec 9, 2003
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Ended no later than Feb 14, 2017
1997
2026
Clock starts
Feb 14, 1997
Feb 14, 1997
Ended no later than
Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017
Granted
Dec 9, 2003
Dec 9, 2003
base term
after the term ends
fee events
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.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
3 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.
28
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 on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Feb 14, 1997, when application 08/801,707, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 11, 2002); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 14, 2017 | 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 on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Feb 14, 2017 | Low confidence |
This family
| Application 60/283,858 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 7,225,246 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2019 | May 2019 |
| Application 10/016,522 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/010,627 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 6,662,227 | this patent no later than Feb 2017 | no later than Feb 2017 |
| US 7,185,085 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 7,143,365 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 7,206,838 | Term ended no later than May 2017 | no later than May 2017 |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2002 Reel 12903, frame 384 | Webtrends Corporation | Netiq Corporation | Merger |
| May 4, 2005 Reel 16522, frame 700 | Netiq Corporation | Webtrends, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 5, 2005 Reel 15972, frame 647 | Webtrends Inc. | Wells Fargo Foothill, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| May 20, 2011 Reel 26319, frame 1 | Webtrends Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Mar 16, 2017 Reel 41598, frame 987 | Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC | Webtrends Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 12, 2017 Reel 42775, frame 589 | Webtrends Inc. | Oracle America, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 29, 2018 Reel 46491, frame 477 | Webtrends Inc. | Oracle America, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Incorrect Appl. No. 7185085 Previously Recorded at Reel: 042775 Frame: 0589. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 14, 2018 Reel 47224, frame 165 | Silicon Valley Bank | Webtrends, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 48174, frame 956 | Oracle America, Inc. | Oracle International Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Feb 14, 2017. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
89
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2003 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.