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System and Method for Customer Provisioning in a Utility Computing Platform

US 8,473,615 In force
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Term ends Oct 28, 2029 · High confidence

Filed May 19, 2009 as application 12/468,525 · Granted Jun 25, 2013
Base term plus 162 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2009 2029
Clock starts
May 19, 2009
Term ends
Oct 28, 2029
Granted
Jun 25, 2013
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
162
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.
5
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 162 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 19, 2009, when this application, 12/468,525, was filedMay 19, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+162 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 28, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 28, 2029High confidence

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US 8,473,615this patent
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Application 12/829,877Abandoned
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US 8,484,355In force
Jun 2030
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Application 13/606,956Abandoned
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US 9,479,394In force
Apr 2030
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 20, 2009
Reel 22712, frame 38
Rowland, Randy; Johnson, Stephen R., JR.; Lochhead, Jason A.; Subramanian, Manikandan; Kothapally, EmmanuelTerremark Worldwide, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 29, 2009
Reel 22884, frame 804
Terremark Worldwide, Inc.; Terremark North America, Inc.; Terremark Europe, Inc.; Terrenap Data Centers, Inc.; Park West Telecommunications Investors, Inc.; Tecota Services Corp.; Technology Center of the Americas, LLC; Terremark Federal Group, Inc.; Terremark Financial Services, Inc.; Terremark Fortune House #1, Inc.; Terremark Latin America, Inc.; Terremark Management Services, Inc.; Terremark Realty, Inc.; Terremark Technology Contractors, Inc.; Terremark Trademark Holdings, Inc.; Terrenap Services, Inc.; Spectrum Telecommunications Corp.; Nap of the Capital Region, LLC; Nap West, LLCU.S. Bank National AssociationSecurity Agreement
Nov 18, 2010
Reel 25387, frame 541
Terremark Worldwide, Inc.; Terremark North America, Inc.; Terremark Europe, Inc.; Terrenap Data Centers, Inc.; Park West Telecommunications Investors, Inc.; Tecota Services Corp.; Technology Center of the Americas, LLC; Terremark Financial Services, Inc.; Terremark Fortune House #1, Inc.; Terremark Latin America, Inc.; Terremark Management Services, Inc.; Terremark Realty, Inc.; Terremark Technology Contractors, Inc.; Terremark Trademark Holdings, Inc.; Terrenap Services, Inc.; Spectrum Telecommunications Corp.; Nap of the Capital Region, LLC; Nap of the Capital Region II, LLC; Nap West, LLC; Nap West II LLC; Terremark Peru LLC; Terremark Datavaulting LLC; Terremark Federal Group, Inc.U.S. Bank National AssociationSecond Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement
Feb 7, 2013
Reel 29770, frame 374
Terremark Worldwide, Inc.Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 10, 2018
Reel 47127, frame 910
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Atlassian, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 5, 2022
Reel 61085, frame 690
Atlassian, Inc.Atlassian US, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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