Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 13, 2024 (SLR Digital Finance LLC).
Term ended May 10, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 10, 2025
Held by Netseer, Inc.
Filed Oct 25, 2012 as application 13/660,955 · Granted Sep 2, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 10, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
May 10, 2005
May 10, 2005
Term ended
May 10, 2025
May 10, 2025
Granted
Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,301,617, to May 10, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 10, 2005, when application 11/125,329, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 25, 2012) | May 10, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,301,617) | resolves to May 10, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 10, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,958,120 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 8,301,617 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 8,838,605 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,825,654 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
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 23, 2013 Reel 30478, frame 781 | Meng Muntz, Alice Hwei-yuan; Rezaei, Behnam Attaran | Netseer, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 30, 2014 Reel 33070, frame 296 | Netseer, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Feb 22, 2017 Reel 41342, frame 430 | Netseer, Inc. | Netseer Acquisition, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 28, 2017 Reel 42105, frame 302 | Netseer, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Security Interest |
| Apr 4, 2017 Reel 41850, frame 435 | Silicon Valley Bank | Netseer, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 14, 2017 Reel 42808, frame 301 | Netseer Acquisition, Inc. | Netseer, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 13, 2024 Reel 68261, frame 709 | Netseer, Inc.; Vertro, Inc.; Validclick Inc. | SLR Digital Finance LLC | Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,301,617, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
221
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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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