Term ends no later than May 29, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 22, 2021
In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.
Held by Salesforce.com, Inc.
Filed Mar 29, 2002 as application 10/113,471 · Granted Oct 7, 2014
Base term plus 2198 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2001
2027
Clock starts
May 22, 2001
May 22, 2001
Ends no later than
May 29, 2027
May 29, 2027
Granted
Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 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
2,198
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
13
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 2198 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 22, 2001, when application 09/863,456, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 29, 2002) | May 22, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2198 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 29, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium 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 | no later than May 29, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 6,922,685 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| Application 10/113,662 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,856,087 | this patent no later than May 2027 | no later than May 2027 |
| US 7,401,131 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2016 | Jul 2016 |
| US 7,856,486 | Term ended no later than Mar 2024 | no later than Mar 2024 |
| US 8,626,877 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| Application 10/113,213 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,802,264 | Term ended Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2002 Reel 12761, frame 386 | Greene, William S.; Pierret, Matthew C. | Worldcom, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2004 Reel 15154, frame 230 | Worldcom, Inc. | Mci, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Apr 5, 2007 Reel 19124, frame 241 | Mci, Inc. | Mci, LLC | Merger |
| Apr 5, 2007 Reel 19124, frame 244 | Mci, LLC | Verizon Business Global LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 22, 2014 Reel 32734, frame 502 | Verizon Business Global LLC | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 17, 2015 Reel 34972, frame 609 | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Salesforce.com, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 28, 2017 Reel 44626, frame 88 | Verizon Business Global LLC | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 032734 Frame: 0502. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2027
Term ends no later than May 29, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 2198 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than May 29, 2027. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
238
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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.