Lapsed Dec 30, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 31, 2027
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Sep 1, 2009 as application 12/302,584 · Granted Dec 30, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 30, 2018
2007
2030
Clock starts
May 31, 2007
May 31, 2007
No longer in force
Dec 30, 2018
Dec 30, 2018
Granted
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
Term would have run to
Sep 21, 2030
Sep 21, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,209
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
7
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 Sep 21, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1209 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 May 31, 2007, when application PCT/IL2007/000666, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 1, 2009) | May 31, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1209 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 21, 2030 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 30, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 30, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,924,367 | this patent Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| US 10,372,680 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 10,268,696 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
3 of 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2009 Reel 22537, frame 686 | Storwize, Inc.; Storwize Ltd. | Kreos Capital III Limited; Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Apr 13, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Storwize Ltd.; Storwize, Inc. | Kreos Capital III Limited | Security Agreement |
| Apr 13, 2009 reel/frame not recorded | Storwize Ltd.; Storwize, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Nov 2, 2009 Reel 23455, frame 905 | Koifman, Haim; Kedem, Nadav; Zohar, Avi; Amit, Jonathan | Storwize Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 2, 2010 Reel 24930, frame 960 | Silicon Valley Bank | Storwize, Inc.; Storwize, Ltd. | Release |
| Sep 2, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Silicon Valley Bank | Storwize, Inc. | Release |
| Sep 2, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Silicon Valley Bank | Storwize, Ltd. | Release |
| Dec 31, 2011 Reel 27467, frame 182 | Kreos Capital III Limited | International Business Machines Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 15, 2012 Reel 27872, frame 17 | Storwize Ltd. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 1209 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
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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