Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 18, 2021 (Goldman Sachs Bank USA).

Term ends Jun 22, 2029 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Mitchell International, Inc.

Filed May 9, 2005 as application 11/124,938 · Granted Dec 3, 2013

Base term plus 1505 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jun 22, 2029

2005 2029

Clock starts
May 9, 2005

Term ends
Jun 22, 2029

Granted
Dec 3, 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

1,505

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.

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 1505 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts May 9, 2005, when this application, 11/124,938, was filed	May 9, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1505 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 22, 2029	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jun 22, 2029	High confidence

This family

US 8,600,769	this patent Jun 2029	Jun 2029
Application 11/406,966	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 14/070,678	Abandoned not computed	not computed

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
May 9, 2005 Reel 16554, frame 191	Mattingly, Larry	Mednet Connect, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 9, 2005 Reel 16554, frame 227	Drucker, Vincent; Katen, Bob; Hatchett, Kevin; Davis, Trevor	Mednet Connect, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 11, 2006 Reel 17181, frame 751	Mednet Connect, Inc.	Fairpay Solutions, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 19, 2009 Reel 23392, frame 496	Fairpay Solutions, Inc.	Midcap Funding I, LLC, as Administrative Agent	Security Agreement
Mar 4, 2014 Reel 32386, frame 115	Midcap Funding V, LLC	Fairpay Solutions, Inc.	Release of Security Interest in Patents
Mar 6, 2014 Reel 32399, frame 476	Fairpay Solutions, Inc.	Bank of America, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Mar 7, 2014 Reel 32400, frame 418	Fairpay Solutions, Inc.	Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral Agent	Security Agreement
Mar 25, 2015 Reel 35248, frame 959	Fairpay Solutions, Inc.	Mitchell International, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 1, 2017 Reel 44593, frame 637	Bank Of America, N.a.	Mitchell International, Inc. (as Successor to Fairpay Solutions, Inc.)	Release of 1ST Lien Security Interest
Dec 1, 2017 Reel 44594, frame 270	Goldman Sachs Bank USA	Mitchell International, Inc. (as Successor to Fairpay Solutions, Inc.)	Release of 2ND Lien Security Interest
Dec 8, 2017 Reel 44760, frame 975	Mitchell International, Inc.	Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent	First Lien Security Agreement
Dec 11, 2017 Reel 44823, frame 678	Mitchell International, Inc.	Jefferies Finance LLC, as Collateral Agent	Second Lien Security Agreement
Oct 18, 2021 Reel 57841, frame 875	Jefferies Finance LLC	Mitchell International, Inc.	Release of First Lien Security Interest (REEL 044760/0975)
Oct 18, 2021 Reel 57841, frame 921	Jefferies Finance LLC	Mitchell International, Inc.	Release of Second Lien Security Interest (REEL 044823/0678)
Oct 18, 2021 Reel 57842, frame 170	Mitchell International, Inc.	Goldman Sachs Bank USA	Second Lien Security Agreement
Oct 18, 2021 Reel 58014, frame 629	Mitchell International, Inc.	Goldman Sachs Bank USA	First Lien Security Agreement

Sources

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What's changing

Jun 2029

Term ends Jun 22, 2029. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 1505 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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