System and method for redistributing and licensing access to protected information among a plurality of devices

US 7,831,516 Term ended

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Term ended Aug 31, 2014 · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Named at grant SL Patent Holdings LLC · find this owner

Filed Dec 6, 2006 as application 11/567,531 · Granted Nov 9, 2010

Base term plus 624 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Aug 31, 2014

1992 2026

Clock starts
Dec 15, 1992

Term ended
Aug 31, 2014

Granted
Nov 9, 2010

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

624

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 1

Maintenance fees paid

One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.

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Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Dec 15, 1992, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Dec 6, 2006)	Dec 15, 2012	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+624 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 31, 2014	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 1 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 31, 2014	From the USPTO record

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System and method for redistributing and licensing access to protected information among a plurality of devices

Term ended Aug 31, 2014 · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Dec 15, 2012

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