Term ended May 27, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 29, 2025
Held by Channel IP B.V.
Filed Jan 11, 2011 as application 13/004,821 · Granted Oct 20, 2015
Base term plus 240 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 27, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2005
Sep 29, 2005
Term ended
May 27, 2026
May 27, 2026
Granted
Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
240
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 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.
4
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 240 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Sep 29, 2005, when application 11/239,707, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 11, 2011) | Sep 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +240 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 27, 2026 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 27, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,088,627 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2006/038155 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,167,053 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,420,045 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2011 Reel 25699, frame 30 | Marmolejo-meillon, Luis G.; Nelson, Barbara | Ipass Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2018 Reel 46094, frame 323 | Ipass Inc. | Fortress Credit Corp. | Security Interest |
| Jun 20, 2018 Reel 46148, frame 555 | Ipass Inc. | Ipass IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 21, 2018 Reel 46170, frame 457 | Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLC | Fortress Credit Corp.; Fip Ust LP; DBD Credit Funding LLC | Security Interest |
| Jun 21, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLC | Fortress Credit Corp. | Security Interest |
| Jun 21, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLC | Fip Ust LP | Security Interest |
| Jun 21, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLC | DBD Credit Funding LLC | Security Interest |
| Feb 28, 2019 Reel 48462, frame 641 | Ipass IP LLC | Post Road Administrative LLC | Security Interest |
| Mar 5, 2019 Reel 48503, frame 518 | Fortress Credit Corp. | Ipass Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Apr 29, 2020 Reel 52525, frame 357 | Post Road Administrative LLC | Ipass IP LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| May 4, 2020 Reel 52564, frame 488 | Fip Ust LP; DBD Credit Funding, LLC | Ipass Inc.; Ipass IP LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| May 4, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | DBD Credit Funding, LLC; Fip Ust LP | Ipass Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 4, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | DBD Credit Funding, LLC; Fip Ust LP | Ipass IP LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 9, 2020 Reel 52888, frame 728 | Ipass IP LLC | High Trail Investments S.A. LLC, as Collateral Agent | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Jun 13, 2023 Reel 63988, frame 501 | Pareteum Corporation; Pareteum North America Corporation; Devicescape Holdings, Inc.; Ipass, Inc.; Ipass IP LLC; Pareteum Europe B.V.; Artilium Group Ltd.; Pareteum N.V.; Pareteum Asia Pte. Ltd. | Channel Ventures Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 30, 2023 Reel 64180, frame 440 | Channel Ventures Group, LLC | Channel IP B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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 240 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
102
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
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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