Lapsed Aug 16, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 25, 2023
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Feb 4, 2008 as application 12/025,634 · Granted Aug 16, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 403 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 16, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2003
Apr 25, 2003
No longer in force
Aug 16, 2023
Aug 16, 2023
Granted
Aug 16, 2011
Aug 16, 2011
Term would have run to
Jun 1, 2024
Jun 1, 2024
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
403
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,366,919, US 7,640,590, to Jun 1, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
5
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 1, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 403 days of term 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. 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 Apr 25, 2003, when application 10/424,532, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 4, 2008) | Apr 25, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +403 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 1, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,366,919, US 7,640,590) | resolves to Jun 1, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 16, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 16, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,366,919 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,640,590 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 7,739,494 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,001,598 | this patent Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 8,359,649 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2019 Reel 51144, frame 918 | Symantec Corporation | CA, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 26, 2021 Reel 55422, frame 865 | Sobel, William E.; McCorkendale, Bruce | Symantec Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 403 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,366,919, US 7,640,590, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.