Also listed on CDW LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 10, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 15, 2026
Held by Barclays Bank PLC
Filed Jun 15, 2006 as application 11/453,527 · Granted Feb 9, 2010
Base term plus 268 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Jun 15, 2006
Jun 15, 2006
Term ends
Mar 10, 2027
Mar 10, 2027
Granted
Feb 9, 2010
Feb 9, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
268
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.
2
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 268 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 15, 2006, when this application, 11/453,527, was filed | Jun 15, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +268 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 10, 2027 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 10, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,660,748 | this patent Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 8,069,093 | Term ended no later than Jun 2026 | no later than Jun 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2006 Reel 18295, frame 219 | Tzau, David; Archer, Jaime | CDW Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 15, 2007 Reel 19961, frame 746 | CDW Corporation | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Nov 20, 2007 Reel 20139, frame 694 | CDW Corporation | Lehman Commercial Paper Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Apr 7, 2009 Reel 22516, frame 810 | Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc. | Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. | Assignment of Previously Created Security Interest |
| Apr 7, 2009 Reel 22516, frame 968 | Lehman Commercial Paper Inc. | Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated | Assignment of Previously Created Security Interest |
| Jan 7, 2010 Reel 23746, frame 257 | CDW Corporation | CDW LLC | Merger |
| Dec 20, 2010 Reel 25526, frame 657 | CDW LLC | Morgan Stanley & Co. Incoporated | Security Agreement |
| Jun 27, 2011 Reel 26507, frame 884 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | CDW LLC (F/K/A CDW Corporation) | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 27, 2011 Reel 26509, frame 662 | CDW LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Apr 29, 2013 Reel 30312, frame 160 | Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC | Barclays Bank PLC | Agency Assignment Agreement |
| Apr 29, 2013 Reel 30312, frame 169 | CDW LLC | Barclays Bank PLC, as Succesor to Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. | Amendment (SECOND) to Security Agreement |
| Dec 5, 2021 Reel 58303, frame 127 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | CDW LLC | Release of Security Interest: Recorded at Reel/Frame 026509/0662 |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58343, frame 659 | Barclays Bank PLC, as Collateral Agent | CDW LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Mar 2027
Term ends Mar 10, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 268 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
28
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.