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US 8,504,589 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 6, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 7, 2012 as application 13/465,922 · Granted Aug 6, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 6, 2025
2006 2026
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2006
No longer in force
Aug 6, 2025
Granted
Aug 6, 2013
Term would have run to
Oct 31, 2026
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
13
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Oct 31, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Oct 31, 2006, when application 11/555,234, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 7, 2012)Oct 31, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 6, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 6, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,493,330In force
Mar 2027
Mar 2027
US 8,195,695In force
Mar 2028
Mar 2028
US 9,016,559In force
Oct 2032
Oct 2032
US 8,504,589this patent
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
Application PCT/US2013/029332PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,832,153Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
US 9,501,754In force
Apr 2032
Apr 2032
US 9,665,846In force
Apr 2032
Apr 2032
8 of 13 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 8, 2012
Reel 28173, frame 251
Cubranic, DavorBusiness Objects, S.a.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 8, 2012
Reel 28173, frame 302
Business Objects, S.a.Business Objects Software Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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