Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 2, 2026 (Keybank National Association).
Lapsed Oct 15, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 29, 2030
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Datadirect Networks, Inc.
Filed Dec 29, 2010 as application 12/981,013 · Granted Oct 15, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 364 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Oct 15, 2025
2010
2030
Clock starts
Dec 29, 2010
Dec 29, 2010
No longer in force
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025
Granted
Oct 15, 2013
Oct 15, 2013
Term would have run to
May 25, 2030
May 25, 2030
base term
after the term ends
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
364
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,086,794.
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.
31
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 May 25, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 364 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 29, 2010, when this application, 12/981,013, was filed | Dec 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +364 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 28, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,086,794) | capped to May 25, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 15, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 15, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,020,074 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| US 7,917,810 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 8,095,763 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 7,877,626 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 8,086,794 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 8,719,520 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 8,560,772 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 8,181,089 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
8 of 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2010 Reel 25607, frame 174 | Piszczek, Michael J.; Fernandes, Cedric T.; Uppu, Pavan Kumar; Mishra, Manjari; Pandt, Shivkumar | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 2, 2011 Reel 27316, frame 486 | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | East West Bank | Security Agreement |
| Jan 13, 2015 Reel 34693, frame 698 | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Preferred Bank, As Lender | Security Interest |
| Jan 16, 2015 Reel 34737, frame 643 | East West Bank | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 13, 2018 Reel 47228, frame 734 | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Triplepoint Capital LLC | Security Interest |
| Apr 21, 2026 Reel 75478, frame 178 | Triplepoint Capital LLC | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 12, 2026 Reel 75737, frame 508 | Triplepoint Capital LLC | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 15, 2026 Reel 74955, frame 540 | Preferred Bank | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 2, 2026 Reel 75892, frame 63 | Datadirect Networks, Inc. | Keybank National Association, As Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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Note
The 364 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,086,794.
Citations
50
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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