Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 12, 2024 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).
Term ended Nov 8, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 8, 2025
Held by Dropbox, Inc.
Filed Dec 23, 2010 as application 12/928,998 · Granted Feb 5, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Nov 8, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2005
Nov 8, 2005
Term ended
Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025
Granted
Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 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 7,885,925, to Nov 8, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
17
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. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Nov 8, 2005, when application 11/269,498, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 23, 2010) | Nov 8, 2025 | 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 7,885,925) | resolves to Nov 8, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High 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 | Nov 8, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/269,498 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,885,925 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,370,298 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 8,600,934 | Term ended no later than Nov 2025 | no later than Nov 2025 |
| US 9,037,540 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 10,158,708 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 11,334,555 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 11,341,114 | In force Feb 2028 | Feb 2028 |
8 of 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2013 Reel 31570, frame 434 | Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc. and Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Sugarsync, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 19, 2013 Reel 31674, frame 1 | Sugarsync, Inc. | Fifth Street Finance Corp. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 17, 2014 Reel 33969, frame 891 | Fifth Street Finance Corp. | Sugarsync, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 11, 2014 Reel 34144, frame 861 | Sugarsync, Inc. | Dropbox, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 14, 2017 Reel 42254, frame 1 | Dropbox, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Mar 10, 2021 Reel 55670, frame 219 | Dropbox, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Dec 12, 2024 Reel 69604, frame 611 | Dropbox, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Dec 12, 2024 Reel 69613, frame 744 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Dropbox, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 13, 2024 Reel 69635, frame 332 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Dropbox, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,885,925, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
75
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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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