Term ended Jun 27, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 27, 2021
Held by ServiceNow, Inc.
Filed Sep 27, 2001 as application 09/966,624 · Granted Jan 30, 2007
Base term plus 273 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 27, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2001
Sep 27, 2001
Term ended
Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022
Granted
Jan 30, 2007
Jan 30, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
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
273
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
4
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 273 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Sep 27, 2001, when this application, 09/966,624, was filed | Sep 27, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +273 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 27, 2022 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High 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 | Jun 27, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,171,420 | this patent Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 8,725,494 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2011/030144 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,436,674 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2002 Reel 12790, frame 661 | Iyer, Balakrishna Raghavendra; Lickel, Charles William | IBM Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2002 Reel 13272, frame 482 | Aubert, Dante Aligheri; Hacigumus, Vahit Hakan | IBM Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 19, 2019 Reel 48634, frame 834 | Iyer, Balakrishna Raghavendra; Lickel, Charles William | International Business Machines Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 012790 Frame: 0661. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Mar 19, 2019 Reel 48635, frame 615 | Aubert, Dante Aligheri; Hacigumus, Vahit Hakan | International Business Machines Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 013272 Frame 0482. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignee Name Is Spelled Out as International Business Machines Corporation. |
| Oct 29, 2019 Reel 50854, frame 80 | International Business Machines Corporation | ServiceNow, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 273 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2007 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
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