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Method and System for Rendering Harmless a Locked Pestware Executable Object

US 8,079,032 In force
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Term ends Jun 14, 2030 · High confidence

Filed Mar 22, 2006 as application 11/386,590 · Granted Dec 13, 2011
Base term plus 1545 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2006 2030
Clock starts
Mar 22, 2006
Term ends
Jun 14, 2030
Granted
Dec 13, 2011
base term patent term adjustment 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
1,545
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
20
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 1545 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 22, 2006, when this application, 11/386,590, was filedMar 22, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1545 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 14, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 14, 2030High confidence

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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
Mar 22, 2006
Reel 17727, frame 622
Nichols, TonyWebroot Software, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 13, 2012
Reel 28953, frame 917
Webroot Software, Inc.Webroot Inc.Change of Name
Jan 6, 2015
Reel 34742, frame 85
Webroot Inc.Wells Fargo Bank, National AssociationSecurity Interest
Mar 22, 2019
Reel 50454, frame 102
Wells Fargo Bank, National AssociationWebroot Inc.Release of Security Interest
Mar 28, 2019
Reel 48723, frame 612
Webroot Inc.Barclays Bank PLC, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Dec 26, 2019
Reel 51418, frame 714
Barclays Bank PLC, as Collateral AgentWebroot Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights Recorded at R/F 048723/0612
Jun 29, 2023
Reel 64167, frame 129
Webroot LLCCarbonite, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 29, 2023
Reel 64176, frame 622
Webroot Inc.Webroot LLCCertificate of Conversion
Jul 6, 2023
Reel 64351, frame 178
Carbonite, LLCOpen Text Inc.Assignment and Assumption Agreement

Sources

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