Term ended Sep 27, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 6, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Sep 14, 2026.
Held by Auctane, Inc.
Filed Dec 2, 2011 as application 13/309,787 · Granted Aug 12, 2014
Base term plus 357 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 27, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Oct 6, 2003
Oct 6, 2003
Term ended
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
Granted
Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
357
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
2
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 357 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 6, 2003, when application 10/679,861, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 2, 2011) | Oct 6, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +357 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 27, 2024 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Sep 14, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 27, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,078,548 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,805,749 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2012 Reel 27521, frame 631 | Ogg, Craig | Stamps.com | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 25, 2015 Reel 37159, frame 492 | Stamps.com Inc. | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Feb 3, 2017 Reel 41618, frame 906 | Ogg, Craig | Stamps.com Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 027521 Frame: 0631. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 8, 2021 Reel 57758, frame 116 | Stamps.com Inc.; Psi Systems, Inc.; Auctane LLC; Shippingeasy Group, Inc. | Ares Capital Corporation | Security Interest |
| Oct 20, 2021 Reel 57881, frame 77 | Wells Fargo Bank | Stamps.com Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 4, 2022 Reel 61072, frame 327 | Stamps.com Inc. | Auctane, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 357 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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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