Term ended Sep 12, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 26, 2027
Held by Sitnet, LLC
Filed Oct 17, 2011 as application 13/274,712 · Granted Dec 11, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Sep 12, 2026
2007
2027
Clock starts
Oct 26, 2007
Oct 26, 2007
Term ended
Sep 12, 2026
Sep 12, 2026
Granted
Dec 11, 2012
Dec 11, 2012
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,812,717, US 8,045,455, US 8,069,292.
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.
34
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Low. 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 Oct 26, 2007, when application 11/924,711, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 17, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 26, 2027 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,812,717, US 8,045,455, US 8,069,292) | capped to Sep 12, 2026 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 12, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,711,475 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,045,455 | In force no later than Jul 2030 | no later than Jul 2030 |
| US 8,069,202 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,036,632 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,826,139 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 7,812,717 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 8,249,932 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 8,000,893 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
8 of 34 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 3, 2012 Reel 27977, frame 142 | Cona, Thomas; Igoe, Patrick T.; Kravets, Leonid | Resource Consortium Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 3, 2012 Reel 27977, frame 227 | Ehrlacher, Edward A. | Resource Consortium Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2019 Reel 50091, frame 297 | Resource Consortium Limited | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Re-Domestication and Entity Conversion |
| Nov 2, 2022 Reel 61630, frame 693 | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Sitnet, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,812,717, US 8,045,455, US 8,069,292.
Citations
8
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.
How we rank
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
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