Also listed on Watchguard, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Aug 20, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 12, 2025
Held by Watchguard Video, Inc.
Filed Oct 12, 2005 as application 11/249,662 · Granted Dec 20, 2011
Base term plus 1408 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2029
Clock starts
Oct 12, 2005
Oct 12, 2005
Term ends
Aug 20, 2029
Aug 20, 2029
Granted
Dec 20, 2011
Dec 20, 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
1,408
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.
8
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 1408 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
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 12, 2005, when this application, 11/249,662, was filed | Oct 12, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1408 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 20, 2029 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 20, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,081,214 | this patent Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 10,063,805 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| Application 12/779,564 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,487,995 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,756,279 | In force no later than Feb 2028 | no later than Feb 2028 |
| US 9,560,309 | In force no later than Feb 2027 | no later than Feb 2027 |
| US 9,871,993 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 10,075,669 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2006 Reel 17337, frame 623 | Goble, Simon C.; Vanman, Robert V. | Enforcement Video, LP, D/B/A/ Watchguard Video | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 22, 2006 Reel 18154, frame 817 | Enforcement Video, LP D/B/A Watchguard Video | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Jun 9, 2008 Reel 21065, frame 483 | Enforcement Video, LP, D/B/A Watchguard Video, LP | The Peninsula Fund IV, L.P. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 8, 2008 Reel 21648, frame 304 | Enforcement Video, LP D/B/A Watchguard Video | Enforcement Video, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| Dec 1, 2010 Reel 25642, frame 195 | Silicon Valley Bank | Enforcement Video LP D/B/A Watchguard Video | Release |
| Mar 5, 2013 Reel 29924, frame 469 | Enforcement Video, LLC | Texas Capital Bank, National Association | Security Agreement |
| Jan 30, 2017 Reel 41564, frame 706 | Enforcement Video, LLC (a Texas Limited Liability Company) | Texas Capital Bank (National Banking Association) | Restated Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Jun 27, 2017 Reel 42831, frame 338 | The Peninsula Fund IV, L.P. | Enforcement Video, LP D/B/A Watchguard Video, LP | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 7, 2017 Reel 44712, frame 932 | Enforcement Video, LLC | Watchguard, Inc. | Certificate of Conversion |
| Jul 12, 2019 Reel 49735, frame 91 | Texas Capital Bank, National Association | Watchguard, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 17, 2019 Reel 51325, frame 261 | Watchguard, Inc.; Watchguard Video, Inc. | Motorola Solutions Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 25, 2020 Reel 52536, frame 535 | Watchguard, Inc.; Watchguard Video, Inc. | Watchguard Video, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Aug 2029
Term ends Aug 20, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1408 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
110
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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