Term ended Oct 24, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 31, 2025
Held by Computer Associates Think, Inc.
Filed Jul 7, 2005 as application 11/176,161 · Granted Nov 18, 2008
Base term plus 266 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 24, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 31, 2005
Jan 31, 2005
Term ended
Oct 24, 2025
Oct 24, 2025
Granted
Nov 18, 2008
Nov 18, 2008
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
266
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.
10
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 266 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 Jan 31, 2005, when application 11/047,468, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 7, 2005) | Jan 31, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +266 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 24, 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 | Oct 24, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,685,148 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,680,799 | In force no later than Aug 2027 | no later than Aug 2027 |
| US 7,454,427 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 7,478,097 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 7,571,154 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2021 | Aug 2021 |
| Application PCT/US2006/003028 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/003436 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/003437 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 10 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 7, 2005 Reel 16765, frame 893 | Jackson, Jerry R. | Cassatt Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2009 Reel 22689, frame 94 | Cassatt Corporation | CA, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 8, 2009 Reel 22793, frame 113 | Cassatt Corporation | Computer Associates Think, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Note
The 266 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
94
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.
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