Term ended Oct 31, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 31, 2026
Filed Sep 18, 2009 as application 12/586,226 · Granted Jun 14, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 31, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2006
Oct 31, 2006
Term ended
Oct 31, 2026
Oct 31, 2026
Granted
Jun 14, 2011
Jun 14, 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.
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.
11
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. 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 Oct 31, 2006, when application 11/591,403, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 18, 2009) | Oct 31, 2026 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Oct 31, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,542,219 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 7,729,515 | In force no later than Mar 2029 | no later than Mar 2029 |
| US 7,826,641 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 7,961,909 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,553,935 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 10,191,559 | Term ended Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| Application 16/653,084 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/198,223 | Pending not computed | not computed |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2009 Reel 23318, frame 196 | Mandella, Michael J.; Gonzalez-banos, Hector H.; Alboszta, Marek | Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Citations
381
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% 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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