Term ends Aug 31, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 5, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Fortinet, Inc.
Filed Mar 7, 2007 as application 11/715,287 · Granted Nov 2, 2010
Base term plus 634 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2005
Dec 5, 2005
Term ends
Aug 31, 2027
Aug 31, 2027
Granted
Nov 2, 2010
Nov 2, 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
634
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 634 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Dec 5, 2005, when application 11/294,673, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 7, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 5, 2025 | 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 | +634 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 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 | Aug 31, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,160,664 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| Application 11/298,864 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,064,601 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 7,826,426 | this patent Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,215,745 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,103,311 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 8,344,953 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 9,142,873 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2012 Reel 28375, frame 126 | Meru Networks, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 5, 2015 Reel 35841, frame 170 | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Meru Networks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 8, 2015 Reel 36083, frame 264 | Opus Bank | Meru Networks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 13, 2021 Reel 55908, frame 311 | Meru Networks, Inc. | Fortinet, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2027
Term ends Aug 31, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 634 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
120
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.