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Automated Filer Technique for Use in Virtualized Appliances and Applications

US 9,087,076 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 21, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Jan 23, 2013 as application 13/747,588 · Granted Jul 21, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 213 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 21, 2019
2006 2027
Clock starts
Sep 15, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 21, 2019
Granted
Jul 21, 2015
Term would have run to
Apr 16, 2027
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
213
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 Apr 16, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 213 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 15, 2006, when application 11/522,050, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 23, 2013)Sep 15, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+213 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 16, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 21, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 21, 2019High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2006/036130PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,949,364In force
Mar 2032
Mar 2032
US 8,429,630In force
Aug 2029
Aug 2029
Application PCT/US2009/046503PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,364,638Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2025
Jan 2025
US 9,087,076this patent
Jul 2019
Jul 2019
US 9,578,088In force
May 2028
May 2028
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 10, 2013
Reel 30765, frame 32
Nickolov, Peter; Kalev, Leonid; Tessler, Eric3TERA, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 10, 2013
Reel 30765, frame 87
3TERA, Inc.Computer Associates Think, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 10, 2013
Reel 30765, frame 169
Computer Associates Think, Inc.CA, Inc.Merger

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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