Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 21, 2024 (McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd.).
Term ends Sep 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 28, 2031
Held by Bitvore Corp.
Filed Jan 28, 2011 as application 13/016,929 · Granted Apr 8, 2014
Base term plus 226 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 28, 2011
Jan 28, 2011
Term ends
Sep 11, 2031
Sep 11, 2031
Granted
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
226
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.
8
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 226 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 Jan 28, 2011, when this application, 13/016,929, was filed | Jan 28, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +226 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 11, 2031 | 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 | Sep 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,694,490 | this patent Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2012/022984 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,626,750 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2013/021119 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,856,107 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,582,551 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| Application 14/465,338 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,569,408 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2012 Reel 28993, frame 146 | Mandel, Carl; Mandel, David; Fudge, Brian; Roth, Lew | DCS Emap Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 18, 2012 Reel 29003, frame 351 | DCS Emap Corporation | Bitvore Corp. | Change of Name |
| Nov 21, 2024 Reel 70070, frame 141 | Bitvore Corp. | McAndrews, Held & Malloy Ltd. | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2031
Term ends Sep 11, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 226 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
75
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2014 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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