Also listed on Uecker & Associates, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jul 31, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 14, 2024
Held by Salesforce.com, Inc.
Filed Dec 14, 2004 as application 11/012,639 · Granted May 18, 2010
Base term plus 959 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Dec 14, 2004
Dec 14, 2004
Term ends
Jul 31, 2027
Jul 31, 2027
Granted
May 18, 2010
May 18, 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
959
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.
9
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 959 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 Dec 14, 2004, when this application, 11/012,639, was filed | Dec 14, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +959 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 31, 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 | Jul 31, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,721,328 | this patent Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,949,963 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,071,594 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,450,946 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,800,586 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 10,333,941 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
6 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2004 Reel 16099, frame 715 | Boulos, Thomas Nabiel; Behera, Prasanta Kumar | Grand Central Communications, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 13, 2007 Reel 19687, frame 141 | Grand Central Communications, Inc. | Uecker & Associates, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 14, 2007 Reel 19691, frame 145 | Uecker & Associates | On Demand Venture Fund LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 15, 2007 Reel 19697, frame 784 | On Demand Venture Fund, LLC | Minor Ventures, LLC. | Merger |
| Nov 6, 2007 Reel 20072, frame 12 | Minor Ventures, LLC | Salesforce.com, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2027
Term ends Jul 31, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 959 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
124
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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