Term ends Oct 12, 2028 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 28, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Deem, Inc.
Filed Mar 23, 2006 as application 11/388,540 · Granted Aug 25, 2015
Base term plus 1019 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Dec 28, 2005
Dec 28, 2005
Term ends
Oct 12, 2028
Oct 12, 2028
Granted
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 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
1,019
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.
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 1019 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 28, 2005, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Mar 23, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Dec 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1019 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 12, 2028 | 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 12, 2028 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,660,743 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Application 11/293,316 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/292,849 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,962,381 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| Application 11/321,769 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,117,223 | this patent Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| Application 11/479,097 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,217,131 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2006 Reel 17686, frame 335 | Handel, Sean; Grady, Patrick; Orttung, Mark; Kikinis, Dan | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2009 Reel 23254, frame 243 | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Labmorgan Investment Corporation | Security Agreement |
| Sep 28, 2010 Reel 25051, frame 95 | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Gold Hill Capital 2008, LP | Security Agreement |
| Apr 16, 2012 Reel 28053, frame 556 | Gold Hill Capital 2008, LP | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 16, 2012 Reel 28053, frame 769 | Labmorgan Investment Corporation | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 7, 2012 Reel 29259, frame 491 | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Labmorgan Investment Corporation | Security Agreement |
| Sep 20, 2013 Reel 31249, frame 616 | Labmorgan Investment Corporation | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 21, 2015 Reel 35772, frame 888 | Rearden Commerce, Inc. | Deem, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 30, 2023 Reel 63197, frame 551 | Travelport, LP [Composed of: Travelport Holdings, LLC]; Travelport International Operations Limited; Deem, Inc.; Travelport, Inc.; Travelport Operations, Inc. | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Grant of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Mar 30, 2023 Reel 63204, frame 254 | Deem, Inc.; Travelport, Inc.; Travelport Operations, Inc. | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Dec 4, 2023 Reel 65762, frame 267 | Travelport, LP; Travelport International Operations Limited; Deem, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Security Interest |
| Dec 28, 2023 Reel 66157, frame 732 | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Travelport, LP; Travelport International Operations Limited; Deem, Inc.; Travelport, Inc.; Travelport Operations, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 28, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Travelport, LP | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 28, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Travelport International Operations Limited | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 28, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Deem, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 28, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Travelport, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 28, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Travelport Operations, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
| Dec 29, 2023 Reel 66140, frame 556 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Travelport, LP; Travelport International Operations Limited; Deem, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 29, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Travelport, LP | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 29, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Travelport International Operations Limited | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 29, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Deem, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 1, 2026 Reel 74813, frame 236 | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | Deem, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 12, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1019 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
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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