Also listed on Sterling Commerce, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 11, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 9, 2030
Filed Sep 9, 2010 as application 12/878,879 · Granted Apr 7, 2015
Base term plus 763 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2032
Clock starts
Sep 9, 2010
Sep 9, 2010
Term ends
Oct 11, 2032
Oct 11, 2032
Granted
Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
763
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
This patent's term runs 763 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Sep 9, 2010, when this application, 12/878,879, was filed | Sep 9, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +763 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 11, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 11, 2032 | High confidence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2010 Reel 25128, frame 35 | Margo, Todd L.; Blankenbaker, Dianne K.; Middlebrook, George Michael | Sterling Commerce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2011 Reel 27024, frame 247 | Sterling Commerce, Inc. | IBM International Group B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 3, 2019 Reel 51170, frame 255 | IBM International Group B.V. | IBM International C.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 3, 2019 Reel 51170, frame 722 | IBM International L.P. | IBM Technology Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 3, 2019 Reel 51170, frame 745 | IBM International C.V. | IBM International L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 19, 2020 Reel 52190, frame 394 | IBM International Group B.V. | IBM International C.V. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Erroneouly Listed Patent on the Schedule a. Patent Number 7,792,767 Was Removed from the Schedule a. Previously Recorded at Reel: 051170 Frame: 0255. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Mar 19, 2020 Reel 52190, frame 464 | IBM International L.P. | IBM Technology Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Erroneously Listedpatent on the Schedule a. Patent Number 7,792,767WAS Removed from the Schedule a Previously Recorded on Reel 051170 Frame 0722. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Patentnumber 7,792,767 Was Erroneously Listed on Theschedule A. |
| Mar 19, 2020 Reel 52190, frame 986 | IBM International C.V. | IBM International L.P. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Erroneous Listed Patent Number 7,792,767 on the Schedule a Previously Recorded at Reel: 051170 Frame: 0745. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Aug 11, 2020 Reel 53452, frame 537 | IBM Technology Corporation | Software Labs Campus Unlimited Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 26, 2021 Reel 56396, frame 942 | Software Labs Campus Unlimited Company | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2032
Term ends Oct 11, 2032.
Note
The 763 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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