Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 4, 2024 (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Sydney Branch, as Secured Party).
Term ended Feb 28, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 13, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Nuix North America Inc.
Filed Oct 20, 2008 as application 12/254,739 · Granted May 18, 2010
Base term plus 15 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Feb 28, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 13, 2004
Feb 13, 2004
Term ended
Feb 28, 2024
Feb 28, 2024
Granted
May 18, 2010
May 18, 2010
base term
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
15
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.
24
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 15 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 13, 2004, when application 10/778,416, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 20, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 13, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +15 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 28, 2024 | 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 | Feb 28, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,191,175 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 7,440,622 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,319,999 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 7,885,957 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 7,720,292 | this patent Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 7,885,468 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 7,983,492 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 8,312,019 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2010 Reel 24163, frame 598 | Attenex Corporation | Fti Technology LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 14, 2011 Reel 25943, frame 38 | Fti Consulting, Inc.; Fti Technology LLC; Attenex Corporation | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 10, 2012 Reel 29434, frame 87 | Fti Consulting, Inc.; Fti Consulting Technology LLC | Bank Of America, N.a. | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 11, 2012 Reel 29449, frame 389 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Fti Consulting, Inc.; Fti Technology LLC; Attenex Corporation | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 11, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Fti Consulting, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 11, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Fti Technology LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 11, 2012 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Attenex Corporation | Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jun 29, 2015 Reel 36029, frame 233 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Fti Consulting, Inc.; Fti Consulting Technology LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Jun 29, 2015 Reel 36031, frame 637 | Fti Consulting, Inc.; Fti Consulting Technology LLC; Fti Consulting Technology Software Corp. | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jun 29, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Fti Consulting, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Jun 29, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Fti Consulting Technology LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Apr 20, 2018 Reel 45785, frame 645 | Fti Technology LLC | Fti Consulting Technology LLC | Change of Name |
| Sep 12, 2018 Reel 47060, frame 107 | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Fti Consulting Technology LLC | Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights at Reel/Frame 036031/0637 |
| Oct 15, 2018 Reel 47237, frame 19 | Fti Consulting Technology LLC | Nuix North America Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 29, 2020 Reel 51653, frame 592 | Evans, Lynne Marie | Attenex Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 4, 2024 Reel 67005, frame 73 | Nuix North America Inc. | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Sydney Branch, as Secured Party | Security Interest |
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Note
The 15 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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