Term ended Oct 31, 2026 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 7,729,515), so the cap could be lower.

Held by Electronic Scripting Products, Inc.

Filed Sep 3, 2009 as application 12/584,402 · Granted Nov 2, 2010

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Oct 31, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Oct 31, 2006

Term ended
Oct 31, 2026

Granted
Nov 2, 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,729,515, to Oct 31, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Oct 31, 2006, when application 11/591,403, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 3, 2009)	Oct 31, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,729,515)	resolves to Oct 31, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium 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	Oct 31, 2026	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,542,219	In force May 2027	May 2027
US 7,729,515	In force no later than Mar 2029	no later than Mar 2029
US 7,826,641	this patent Oct 2026	Oct 2026
US 7,961,909	Term ended Oct 2026	Oct 2026
US 8,553,935	Term ended Oct 2024	Oct 2024
US 10,191,559	Term ended Jan 2024	Jan 2024
Application 16/653,084	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 18/198,223	Pending not computed	not computed

8 of 11 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 20, 2010 Reel 24471, frame 692	Mandella, Michael J.; Gonzalez-banos, Hector H.; Alboszta, Marek	Electronic Scripting Products, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,729,515, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

252

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

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.

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