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 May 10, 2017 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 14, 2017
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on May 20, 2019.
Held by Oracle International Corporation
Filed Oct 17, 2003 as application 10/688,309 · Granted Apr 17, 2007
Base term plus 85 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than May 10, 2017
1997
2026
Clock starts
Feb 14, 1997
Feb 14, 1997
Ended no later than
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017
Granted
Apr 17, 2007
Apr 17, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
85
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 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.
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 runs 85 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Oct 17, 2003); 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 | +85 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 10, 2017 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on May 20, 2019, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than May 10, 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 | Term ended 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2005 Reel 16522, frame 700 | Netiq Corporation | Webtrends, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 20, 2011 Reel 26319, frame 1 | Webtrends Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| 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
Note
The 85 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than May 10, 2017. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
41
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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
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.