Lapsed Nov 4, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 17, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Feb 15, 2008 as application 12/070,364 · Granted Nov 4, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1617 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 4, 2022
2007
2032
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2007
Oct 17, 2007
No longer in force
Nov 4, 2022
Nov 4, 2022
Granted
Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014
Term would have run to
Mar 21, 2032
Mar 21, 2032
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
1,617
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
49
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Mar 21, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 1617 days of term adjustment for 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 17, 2007, when application 11/974,983, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 15, 2008) | Oct 17, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1617 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 21, 2032 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 4, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 4, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,625,762 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 8,488,754 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 8,879,702 | this patent Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 8,447,018 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,811,575 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,548,140 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 9,036,797 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 10,958,781 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
8 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2008 Reel 20972, frame 854 | White, James N.; Martino, Monica Rose; Smith, M. Gregory; Buie, Thomas M. | Accudata Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50579, frame 777 | Accudata, Inc. Dba Accudata Technologies, Inc. Aka Accudata Technologies | First Orion Corp., Aka First Orion Corp. D/B/A Privacystar | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 1617 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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