Term ended Dec 11, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 11, 2023
Held by Open Text S.A. ULC
Filed Jun 21, 2010 as application 12/819,985 · Granted Mar 1, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 11, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 11, 2003
Dec 11, 2003
Term ended
Dec 11, 2023
Dec 11, 2023
Granted
Mar 1, 2011
Mar 1, 2011
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 7,188,216, US 7,752,394, to Dec 11, 2023. 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.
15
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: 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 11, 2003, when application 10/733,798, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 21, 2010) | Dec 11, 2023 | 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 7,188,216, US 7,752,394) | resolves to Dec 11, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change | High 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 | Dec 11, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,360,025 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,188,216 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,752,394 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 7,818,506 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,463,998 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,312,222 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 8,380,932 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 7,899,991 | this patent Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2010 Reel 24766, frame 347 | Rajkumar, N. Isaac; You, Puhong; Caldwell, David Dean; Larsen, Brett J.; Afshar, Jamshid; O'connell, Conleth | Vignette Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 7, 2010 Reel 24951, frame 605 | Vignette Corporation (4%) | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Sep 7, 2010 Reel 24951, frame 713 | Vignette Corporation (96%) | Vignette LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2010 Reel 24979, frame 410 | Vignette LLC (96%) | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Oct 12, 2011 Reel 27077, frame 423 | Vignette Software, LLC | Vignette Corporation | Merger |
| Oct 13, 2011 Reel 27091, frame 9 | Vignette Corporation | Vignette Operating, LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Oct 14, 2011 Reel 27066, frame 773 | Vignette Operating, LLC | Vignette Partnership, LP | Certificate of Conversion |
| Dec 19, 2011 Reel 27483, frame 205 | Vignette Partnership, LP | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 627 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 500 | Op IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 578 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,188,216, US 7,752,394, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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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