Term ends Nov 1, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 15, 2029
Held by Shutterfly, Inc.
Filed May 31, 2012 as application 13/485,450 · Granted Apr 21, 2015
Base term plus 383 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2030
Clock starts
Dec 15, 2009
Dec 15, 2009
Term ends
Nov 1, 2030
Nov 1, 2030
Granted
Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015
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
383
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 8,196,038, US 9,015,580.
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.
10
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 383 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 Dec 15, 2009, when applications 12/638,819, 12/638,833 and 12/638,844, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed May 31, 2012) | Dec 15, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +383 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 2, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,196,038, US 9,015,580) | capped to Nov 1, 2030 | 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 | Nov 1, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/638,819 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,255,290 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 8,239,290 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| Application 12/702,932 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,196,038 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 8,234,181 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2011/024059 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,015,580 | this patent Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2016 Reel 39024, frame 761 | Shutterfly, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Agreement |
| Aug 17, 2017 Reel 43542, frame 693 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Shutterfly, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 18, 2017 Reel 43601, frame 955 | Shutterfly, Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| May 23, 2018 Reel 46216, frame 396 | Shutterfly, Inc.; Lifetouch Inc.; Lifetouch National School Studios Inc. | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Sep 26, 2019 Reel 50527, frame 868 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Shutterfly, Inc.; Lifetouch Inc.; Lifetouch National School Studios Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 26, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Shutterfly, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 26, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Lifetouch Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 26, 2019 reel/frame not recorded | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Lifetouch National School Studios Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50572, frame 508 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. | Shutterfly Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 27, 2019 Reel 50574, frame 865 | Shutterfly, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association | First Lien Security Agreement |
| Nov 22, 2019 Reel 51095, frame 172 | Shutterfly, Inc. | Shutterfly, LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 16, 2022 Reel 62130, frame 181 | Tiny Prints, Inc. | Tiny Prints, LLC | Merger |
| Dec 16, 2022 Reel 62130, frame 247 | Tiny Prints, LLC | Shutterfly, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 3, 2023 Reel 65103, frame 765 | Berger, Kelly; Asar, Adnan; Chang, Kevin; Holloway, Matthew; Chen, Eugene; Salvador, Kris | Shutterfly, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 22, 2026 Reel 75873, frame 501 | Snapfish, LLC; Shutterfly, LLC | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 23, 2026 Reel 75813, frame 795 | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Shutterfly, Inc. | Release of Security Interest at Reel/Frame 50574/0865 |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2030
Term ends Nov 1, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 383 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 8,196,038, US 9,015,580.
Citations
81
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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