Lapsed Nov 13, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 11, 2023
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Open Text S.A. ULC
Filed Sep 11, 2008 as application 12/208,934 · Granted Nov 13, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 704 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 13, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 11, 2003
Dec 11, 2003
No longer in force
Nov 13, 2024
Nov 13, 2024
Granted
Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012
Term would have run to
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
704
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 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.
15
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 14, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 704 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Dec 11, 2003, when applications 10/733,742 and 10/733,798, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 11, 2008) | Dec 11, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +704 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 14, 2025 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 13, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 13, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,360,025 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,188,216 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,752,394 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 7,818,506 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,463,998 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,312,222 | this patent Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 8,380,932 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 7,899,991 | Term ended Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2008 Reel 21610, frame 575 | Martin, John H.; Helgren, Matthew; Fung, Kin-chung; Scheevel, Mark R. | Vignette Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2010 Reel 23768, frame 708 | Vignette Corporation (4%) | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Jan 11, 2010 Reel 24006, frame 1 | Vignette Corporation (96%) | Vignette LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Jan 14, 2010 Reel 23792, frame 470 | Vignette LLC (96%) | Vignette Software LLC | Intellectual Property Purchase Agreement |
| Oct 12, 2011 Reel 27077, frame 423 | Vignette Software, LLC | Vignette Corporation | Merger |
| Oct 13, 2011 Reel 27091, frame 9 | Vignette Corporation | Vignette Operating, LLC | Certificate of Conversion |
| Oct 14, 2011 Reel 27066, frame 773 | Vignette Operating, LLC | Vignette Partnership, LP | Certificate of Conversion |
| Dec 19, 2011 Reel 27483, frame 205 | Vignette Partnership, LP | Open Text S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 627 | Open Text S.A. | OT IP Sub, LLC | IP Business Sale Agreement |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 500 | Op IP Sub, LLC | IP OT Sub ULC | Certificate of Continuance |
| Sep 13, 2016 Reel 40019, frame 578 | IP OT Sub ULC | Open Text S.A. ULC | Certificate of Amalgamation |
Sources
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Note
The 704 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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