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US 7,860,831 Term ended

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Term ended Jan 10, 2020 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jan 30, 2023.

Named at grant NeXT Software, Inc. · find this owner

Filed May 1, 2006 as application 11/415,850 · Granted Dec 28, 2010

Base term plus 1272 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Jan 10, 2020

1996 2026

Clock starts
Jul 17, 1996

Term ended
Jan 10, 2020

Granted
Dec 28, 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

1,272

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

2 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 Jul 17, 1996, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed May 1, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jul 17, 2016	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	+1272 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 10, 2020	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	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
USPTO status record	Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jan 30, 2023, after the term ended	no change	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jan 10, 2020	Medium confidence

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.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

Object Graph Editing Context and Methods of Use

Term ended Jan 10, 2020 · Medium confidence

20-year base term ended Jul 17, 2016

How we calculated this date

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