Term ended Jun 12, 2018 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 12, 2018
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Sep 5, 2022.
Held by J2 Cloud Services, LLC
Filed Jan 26, 2006 as application 11/341,408 · Granted Aug 3, 2010
Base term plus 910 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Jun 12, 2018
1998
2026
Clock starts
Jun 12, 1998
Jun 12, 1998
Term ended
Jun 12, 2018
Jun 12, 2018
Granted
Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 2010
base term
after the term ends
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
910
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,020,132.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
30
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 910 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 12, 1998, when application 09/097,307, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 26, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 12, 2018 | 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 | +910 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 8, 2020 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,020,132) | capped to Jun 12, 2018 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Sep 5, 2022, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 12, 2018 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,564,321 | Term ended Jun 2015 | Jun 2015 |
| US 7,020,132 | Term ended no later than Jun 2018 | no later than Jun 2018 |
| US 6,857,074 | Term ended May 2015 | May 2015 |
| US 7,895,306 | Term ended no later than Oct 2019 | no later than Oct 2019 |
| Application 90/007,539 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 7,769,001 | this patent Jun 2018 | Jun 2018 |
| Application 90/007,953 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/609,019 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 30 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 16, 2014 Reel 32911, frame 182 | J2 Global Communications, Inc. | J2 Global, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 8, 2014 Reel 33281, frame 801 | J2 Global, Inc. | J2 Cloud Services, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33286, frame 101 | J2 Cloud Services, Inc. | Advanced Messaging Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2022 Reel 59306, frame 825 | Advanced Messaging Technologies, Inc. | J2 Cloud Services, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 910 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,020,132.
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.