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US 8,140,454 In force
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Term ends Jan 17, 2031 · High confidence

Filed Dec 28, 2007 as application 12/003,640 · Granted Mar 20, 2012
Base term plus 1116 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2031
Clock starts
Dec 28, 2007
Term ends
Jan 17, 2031
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
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
1,116
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.
56
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 1116 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 28, 2007, when this application, 12/003,640, was filedDec 28, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1116 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 17, 2031High 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 orderJan 17, 2031High 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 26, 2008
Reel 20752, frame 521
Bullen, Geoff; Dickson, Richard M.; Roberts, Warren C.Software AGAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 17, 2024
Reel 70095, frame 634
Software AGMosel Bidco AGMerger
Dec 17, 2024
Reel 69715, frame 415
Mosel Bidco AGSoftware GmbHChange of Name

Sources

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