Lapsed Oct 12, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 24, 2024
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by LinkedIn Corporation
Filed Feb 24, 2005 as application 11/065,693 · Granted Oct 12, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1230 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 12, 2018
2004
2028
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2004
Aug 24, 2004
No longer in force
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018
Granted
Oct 12, 2010
Oct 12, 2010
Term would have run to
Jan 6, 2028
Jan 6, 2028
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,230
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
18
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 Jan 6, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 1230 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 Aug 24, 2004, when application 10/925,897, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2005) | Aug 24, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1230 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 6, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 12, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 12, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,307,109 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| Application 11/065,437 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/065,186 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,814,142 | this patent Oct 2018 | Oct 2018 |
| Application 11/104,402 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/066,326 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/064,772 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/065,081 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2005 Reel 16551, frame 810 | Mamou, Jean-claude; Toum, Christophe | Ascential Software Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 26, 2005 Reel 17555, frame 184 | Ascential Software Corporation | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 13, 2015 Reel 35201, frame 479 | International Business Machines Corporation | LinkedIn Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1230 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
284
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.
How we rank
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