Term ended Mar 16, 2022 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 20, 2021
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Apr 3, 2023.
Held by Regulatory Datacorp, Inc.
Filed Oct 23, 2002 as application 10/278,380 · Granted Mar 1, 2011
Base term plus 361 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 16, 2022
2001
2026
Clock starts
Mar 20, 2001
Mar 20, 2001
Term ended
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022
Granted
Mar 1, 2011
Mar 1, 2011
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
361
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.
49
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 361 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Mar 20, 2001, when application 09/812,627, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 23, 2002); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 20, 2021 | 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 | +361 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 16, 2022 | 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 Apr 3, 2023, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 16, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,181,428 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 8,140,415 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,527,400 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 7,899,722 | this patent Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 10/385,557 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/456,000 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,958,027 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| Application 10/459,258 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2003 Reel 13366, frame 400 | Lawrence, David; Young, Carl | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 16, 2016 Reel 40054, frame 122 | Goldman Sachs & Co. | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 39816, frame 190 | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 40095, frame 272 | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent | First Lien Patent Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2016 Reel 40483, frame 506 | Regulatory Datacorp, Intl LLC | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Merger |
| Oct 26, 2016 Reel 40479, frame 394 | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 040054 Frame: 0122. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 14, 2018 Reel 45795, frame 795 | Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit LLC | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 13, 2020 Reel 51931, frame 397 | Antares Capital LP | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral |
Sources
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Note
The 361 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2011 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
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