Term ended May 2, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 25, 2023
Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Apr 25, 2003 as application 10/424,532 · Granted Apr 29, 2008
Base term plus 738 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 2, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2003
Apr 25, 2003
Term ended
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
Granted
Apr 29, 2008
Apr 29, 2008
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
738
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.
5
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 738 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 Apr 25, 2003, when this application, 10/424,532, was filed | Apr 25, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +738 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 2, 2025 | 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 | May 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,366,919 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,640,590 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 7,739,494 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,001,598 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 8,359,649 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2003 Reel 14012, frame 929 | Sobel, William E.; McCorkendale, Bruce | Symantec Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 21, 2019 Reel 51144, frame 918 | Symantec Corporation | CA, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 738 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
77
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2008 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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