Lapsed Sep 1, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 21, 2026
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Jettee, Inc.
Filed Oct 21, 2009 as application 12/603,367 · Granted Sep 1, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 803 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Sep 1, 2019
2006
2027
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2006
Sep 21, 2006
No longer in force
Sep 1, 2019
Sep 1, 2019
Granted
Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015
Term would have run to
May 25, 2027
May 25, 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
803
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 7,610,285.
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.
3
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 May 25, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 803 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 21, 2006, when application 11/524,831, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 21, 2009) | Sep 21, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +803 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 2, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,610,285) | capped to May 25, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 1, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 1, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,610,285 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2017 | Oct 2017 |
| US 7,865,873 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 9,122,750 | this patent Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11, 2009 Reel 23648, frame 939 | Zoellner, Keith; Lee, Peter; Might, Brad | Stored Iq | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 2, 2014 Reel 32590, frame 416 | Stored Iq | International Business Machines Corporation | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jan 11, 2022 Reel 58616, frame 384 | International Business Machines Corporation | Breakwater Solutions LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 4, 2024 Reel 69124, frame 227 | Breakwater Solutions, LLC; Repario Data, LLC | Jettee, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 803 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 7,610,285.
Citations
20
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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