Term ends Feb 20, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 5, 2029
Held by Micro Focus LLC
Filed May 5, 2009 as application 12/435,635 · Granted Feb 3, 2015
Base term plus 1034 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
May 5, 2009
May 5, 2009
Term ends
Feb 20, 2029
Feb 20, 2029
Granted
Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015
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
1,034
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,864,952.
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 runs 1034 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 5, 2009, when this application, 12/435,635, was filed | May 5, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1034 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 4, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,864,952) | capped to Feb 20, 2029 | High 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 | Feb 20, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,948,375 | this patent Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2009/048361 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2010/033263 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,467,420 | In force no later than May 2029 | no later than May 2029 |
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 5, 2009 Reel 22639, frame 245 | Burnett, Steven D.; Spies, Terence; Martin, Luther W.; Vaterlaus, Robert K.; Pauker, Matthew J. | Voltage Security, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 7, 2014 Reel 32170, frame 273 | Voltage Security, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Feb 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Voltage Security, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Feb 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Voltage Security, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Feb 27, 2015 Reel 35110, frame 726 | Venture Lending & Leasing VI, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing VII, Inc. | Voltage Security, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 11, 2017 Reel 44183, frame 577 | Entit Software LLC; Arcsight, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Oct 11, 2017 Reel 44183, frame 718 | Attachmate Corporation; Borland Software Corporation; Netiq Corporation; Micro Focus (US), Inc.; Micro Focus Software, Inc.; Entit Software LLC; Arcsight, LLC; Serena Software, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Dec 17, 2018 Reel 51198, frame 611 | Voltage Security, Inc. | Voltage Security, LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 17, 2018 Reel 51199, frame 74 | Voltage Security, LLC; Entit Software LLC | Entit Software LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| Aug 8, 2019 Reel 50004, frame 1 | Entit Software LLC | Micro Focus LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 2, 2023 Reel 62746, frame 399 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Micro Focus LLC (F/K/A Entit Software LLC); Borland Software Corporation; Micro Focus (US), Inc.; Serena Software, Inc.; Attachmate Corporation; Micro Focus Software Inc. (F/K/A Novell, Inc.); Netiq Corporation | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 Reel 63560, frame 1 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Micro Focus LLC (F/K/A Entit Software LLC) | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0577 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Micro Focus LLC (F/K/A Entit Software LLC) | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Borland Software Corporation | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Micro Focus (US), Inc. | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Serena Software, Inc. | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Attachmate Corporation | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Micro Focus Software Inc. (F/K/A Novell, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
| Feb 2, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Netiq Corporation | Release of Security Interest Reel/Frame 044183/0718 |
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What's changing
Feb 2029
Term ends Feb 20, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1034 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,864,952.
Citations
64
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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