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Detecting and Interdicting Fraudulent Activity on a Network

US 7,856,494 In force
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Term ends Aug 17, 2028 · High confidence

Held by FMR LLC
Filed Nov 14, 2006 as application 11/559,775 · Granted Dec 21, 2010
Base term plus 642 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2028
Clock starts
Nov 14, 2006
Term ends
Aug 17, 2028
Granted
Dec 21, 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
642
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.
8
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 642 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 14, 2006, when this application, 11/559,775, was filedNov 14, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+642 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 17, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 17, 2028High confidence

This family

US 8,180,873In force
Jan 2028
Jan 2028
Application 11/559,771Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 7,856,494this patent
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
US 8,145,560In force (reinstated)
Mar 2030
Mar 2030
Application 11/559,764Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 11/559,762Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2007/084540PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 13/469,874Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 27, 2006
Reel 18678, frame 599
Kilkarni, Rajandra Laxman; Bhatt, Vijay C.; Singh, Stephen; Greenberg, AdamFMR Corp.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 18, 2007
Reel 19443, frame 513
Kulkarni, Rajandra Laxman; Bhatt, Vijay C.; Singh, Stephen; Greenberg, AdamFMR Corp.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Spelling of Assignor Kulkarni's Last Name Previously Recorded on Reel 018678 Frame 0599. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Spelling of the Assignor's Last Name Is Kulkarni.
Dec 2, 2007
Reel 20184, frame 151
FMR Corp.FMR LLCMerger

Sources

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