Term ended Sep 16, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 16, 2024
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Feb 3, 2025.
Held by Shopify, Inc.
Filed Mar 17, 2011 as application 13/050,022 · Granted Jan 1, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 16, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Sep 16, 2004
Sep 16, 2004
Term ended
Sep 16, 2024
Sep 16, 2024
Granted
Jan 1, 2013
Jan 1, 2013
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,917,356, to Sep 16, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Sep 16, 2004, when application 10/942,518, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 17, 2011) | Sep 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,917,356) | resolves to Sep 16, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Feb 3, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 16, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,917,356 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
| US 8,346,543 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,577,674 | Term ended no later than Sep 2024 | no later than Sep 2024 |
| US 8,700,390 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,909,519 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 9,009,034 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 9,224,405 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 9,412,396 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2011 Reel 25972, frame 881 | Chen, Bing; James, James H. | AT&T Coporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 18, 2019 Reel 49802, frame 740 | Chen, Bing; James, James H. | AT&T Corp. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 025972 Frame 0881. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jul 19, 2019 Reel 49799, frame 150 | AT&T Corp. | AT&T Properties, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49829, frame 725 | AT&T Properties, LLC | AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 14, 2019 Reel 51005, frame 99 | AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P. | Shopify, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,917,356, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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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