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US 8,285,803 Term ended
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Term ended Apr 23, 2023 · High confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Nov 11, 2024.

Held by Yahoo Assets LLC
Filed Apr 7, 2011 as application 13/081,705 · Granted Oct 9, 2012
Base term plus 5 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Apr 23, 2023
2003 2026
Clock starts
Apr 18, 2003
Term ended
Apr 23, 2023
Granted
Oct 9, 2012
base term 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
5
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 filingClock starts Apr 18, 2003, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Apr 7, 2011)Apr 18, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+5 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 23, 2023High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Nov 11, 2024, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 23, 2023High confidence

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.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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