Lapsed Mar 23, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 31, 2025
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Computer Associates Think, Inc.
Filed Jan 31, 2005 as application 11/047,468 · Granted Mar 23, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1300 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 23, 2022
2005
2028
Clock starts
Jan 31, 2005
Jan 31, 2005
No longer in force
Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022
Granted
Mar 23, 2010
Mar 23, 2010
Term would have run to
Aug 23, 2028
Aug 23, 2028
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
1,300
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
Its term would have run to Aug 23, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 1300 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 this application, 11/047,468, was filed | Jan 31, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1300 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 23, 2028 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 23, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 23, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,685,148 | this patent Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,680,799 | In force no later than Aug 2027 | no later than Aug 2027 |
| US 7,454,427 | Term ended 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2005 Reel 16516, frame 797 | Engquist, James D.; Vosburgh, Craig A.; Berliner, Brian; Jackson, Jerry R.; Lindley, Craig A.; Collins, Doreen E.; Nordby, Jonathan D.; Church, Dann M.; Resch, David L. | 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
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Note
The 1300 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
76
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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