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US 8,060,596 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Nov 15, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Mar 31, 2009 as application 12/415,329 · Granted Nov 15, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 122 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 15, 2023
2007 2028
Clock starts
Dec 26, 2007
No longer in force
Nov 15, 2023
Granted
Nov 15, 2011
Term would have run to
Apr 26, 2028
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
122
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 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.
4
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 Apr 26, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 122 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 26, 2007, when application 11/964,264, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 31, 2009)Dec 26, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+122 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 26, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 15, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 15, 2023High confidence

This family

US 8,244,846In force
Oct 2029
Oct 2029
Application PCT/US2008/088167PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,032,637In force
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
US 8,060,596this patent
Nov 2023
Nov 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 1, 2009
Reel 22485, frame 24
Wootton, Bruce; Dandliker, Richard; Tsibulya, Aleksey; Bruening, Oskar; Kessler, DirkSymantec CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 21, 2019
Reel 51144, frame 918
Symantec CorporationCA, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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