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Method and Apparatus for Using Retail Authorization to Reduce the Initial Value of a Software Product

US 7,680,741 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Dec 1, 2026 · High confidence

Held by Intuit Inc.
Filed Jul 26, 2007 as application 11/828,818 · Granted Mar 16, 2010
Base term plus 157 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2026
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2006
Term ends
Dec 1, 2026
Granted
Mar 16, 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
157
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 157 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 27, 2006, when application 11/476,990, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 26, 2007)Jun 27, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+157 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 1, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 1, 2026High confidence

This family

US 9,471,756In force
no later than Feb 2031
no later than Feb 2031
US 7,680,741this patent
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 7,840,959In force
Jun 2027
Jun 2027
Application 11/829,430Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 14, 2007
Reel 19689, frame 800
Cook, Richard W.; Rosemore, Timothy A.; Woods, Andrew A.; Possin, Jennifer; Sung, Edmund Y.l.Intuit Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 28, 2008
Reel 20426, frame 426
Cook, Richard W.; Rosemore, Timothy A.; Woods, Andrew A.; Possin, Jennifer; Sung, Edmund Y.l.Intuit Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Number of Pages in the Original Assignment Document Previously Recorded on Reel 019689 Frame 0800. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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