Also listed on Attributor Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 23, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 29, 2026
Held by Lemon Inc.
Filed Aug 29, 2006 as application 11/512,067 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term plus 481 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Aug 29, 2006
Aug 29, 2006
Term ends
Dec 23, 2027
Dec 23, 2027
Granted
May 27, 2014
May 27, 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
481
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.
16
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 481 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 Aug 29, 2006, when this application, 11/512,067, was filed | Aug 29, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +481 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 23, 2027 | 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 | Dec 23, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,738,749 | this patent Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| Application 11/512,074 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/512,075 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/512,045 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,010,511 | In force no later than Feb 2027 | no later than Feb 2027 |
| Application 11/512,057 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,707,459 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2007/018893 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2006 Reel 18512, frame 620 | Brock, James L.; Pitkow, James E. | Attributor Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 8, 2007 Reel 18726, frame 21 | Brock, James L.; Pitkow, James E. | Attributor Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Title Needs to Be Corrected. Previously Recorded on Reel 018512 Frame 0612. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the the Title Should Read "Content Monitoring and Host Compliance Evaluation". |
| Jan 19, 2022 Reel 58700, frame 87 | Attributor Corporation | Lemon Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Dec 2027
Term ends Dec 23, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 481 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
88
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.
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