Term ends May 15, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 27, 2025
Held by PayPal, Inc.
Filed Mar 23, 2007 as application 11/690,720 · Granted Dec 4, 2012
Base term plus 718 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
May 27, 2005
May 27, 2005
Term ends
May 15, 2027
May 15, 2027
Granted
Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 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
718
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.
21
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 718 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts May 27, 2005, when application 11/140,273, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 23, 2007) | May 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +718 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 15, 2027 | 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 | May 15, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,848,765 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,326,315 | this patent May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 8,909,248 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,862,150 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,654,923 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 9,668,096 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| Application 14/624,083 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,321,264 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
8 of 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2007 Reel 19156, frame 405 | Phillips, Alan; Schroth, Frank; Palmer, Geoffrey M.; Zielinski, Stefan G.; Smith, Allen P.; Cunnigham, Colin M. | Ulocate Communications, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 16, 2010 Reel 24999, frame 336 | Ulocate Communications, Inc. | Where, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Sep 28, 2011 Reel 26998, frame 686 | Where, Inc. | Where, LLC. | Change of Name |
| Dec 14, 2011 Reel 27415, frame 275 | Where, LLC. | eBay Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 23, 2015 Reel 36163, frame 596 | eBay Inc. | PayPal, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2027
Term ends May 15, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 718 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
515
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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