Term ends Jan 12, 2031 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 7, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by ByteDance Inc.
Filed Apr 13, 2006 as application 11/404,102 · Granted Nov 13, 2012
Base term plus 1741 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2031
Clock starts
Apr 7, 2006
Apr 7, 2006
Term ends
Jan 12, 2031
Jan 12, 2031
Granted
Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 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
1,741
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.
6
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 1741 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 Apr 7, 2006, when application 11/400,798, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 13, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 7, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1741 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 12, 2031 | 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 | Jan 12, 2031 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,311,845 | this patent Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2007/063729 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/008552 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,380,658 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| Application 16/459,679 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2006 Reel 18060, frame 609 | Vengroff, Darren E.; Holden, Jeffrey A. | Pelago, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2006 Reel 18633, frame 751 | Pelago, Inc. | Pelago, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 22, 2007 Reel 19996, frame 429 | Pelago, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Jan 7, 2009 Reel 22083, frame 426 | Silicon Valley Bank | Pelago Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2011 Reel 27102, frame 896 | Pelago, Inc. | Groupon, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2020 Reel 53294, frame 495 | Groupon, Inc.; Livingsocial, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 Reel 66676, frame 1 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc.; Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 Reel 66676, frame 251 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc.; Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights |
| Aug 12, 2024 Reel 68833, frame 811 | Groupon, Inc. | ByteDance Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2031
Term ends Jan 12, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1741 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
273
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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