Term ended Oct 10, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 20, 2021
Held by Regulatory Datacorp, Inc.
Filed Mar 20, 2001 as application 09/812,627 · Granted Mar 20, 2012
Base term plus 934 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 10, 2023
2001
2026
Clock starts
Mar 20, 2001
Mar 20, 2001
Term ended
Oct 10, 2023
Oct 10, 2023
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Mar 20, 2012
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
934
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.
49
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 934 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Mar 20, 2001, when this application, 09/812,627, was filed | Mar 20, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +934 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 10, 2023 | 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 10, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,181,428 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 8,140,415 | this patent Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,527,400 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 7,899,722 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| Application 10/385,557 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 10/456,000 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,958,027 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| Application 10/459,258 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2001 Reel 12127, frame 35 | Lawrence, David; Junnarkar, Ajay | Goldman, Sachs and Co. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 24, 2013 Reel 30888, frame 808 | Lawrence, David; Junnarkar, Ajay | Goldman Sachs & Co. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Assignee from Goldman, Sachs and Co. to Goldman Sachs & Co. Previously Recorded on Reel 012127 Frame 0035. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Name of the Assignee Is Goldman Sachs & Co. |
| Sep 16, 2016 Reel 40054, frame 122 | Goldman Sachs & Co. | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 39816, frame 190 | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 40095, frame 272 | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent | First Lien Patent Security Agreement |
| Oct 26, 2016 Reel 40483, frame 506 | Regulatory Datacorp, Intl LLC | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Merger |
| Oct 26, 2016 Reel 40479, frame 394 | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 040054 Frame: 0122. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| May 14, 2018 Reel 45795, frame 795 | Goldman Sachs Private Middle Market Credit LLC | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 13, 2020 Reel 51931, frame 397 | Antares Capital LP | Regulatory Datacorp, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Patent Collateral |
Sources
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Note
The 934 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
72
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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