Lapsed Mar 8, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 22, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Altera Corporation
Filed Apr 2, 2014 as application 14/243,725 · Granted Mar 8, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Mar 8, 2024
2009
2029
Clock starts
Jun 22, 2009
Jun 22, 2009
No longer in force
Mar 8, 2024
Mar 8, 2024
Granted
Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016
Term would have run to
Jun 22, 2029
Jun 22, 2029
base term
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
45
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 8,705,581.
1 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.
4
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 Jun 22, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 45 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 Jun 22, 2009, when application 12/488,836, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 2, 2014) | Jun 22, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +45 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 6, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,705,581) | capped to Jun 22, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 8, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 8, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,199,782 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,363,684 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,705,581 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 9,281,911 | this patent Mar 2024 | Mar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2022 Reel 60921, frame 206 | Altera Canada Ltd.; Intel of Canada, Ltd. | Intel of Canada, Ltd. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Aug 29, 2022 Reel 61333, frame 7 | Altera Canada Co. | Altera Canada Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Aug 29, 2022 Reel 61334, frame 500 | Intel of Canada, Ltd. | Intel Technology of Canada, Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Oct 10, 2022 Reel 61359, frame 223 | Intel Technology of Canada, Ltd. | Intel Technology of Canada, ULC | Change of Name |
| Oct 10, 2022 Reel 61368, frame 947 | Intel Technology of Canada, ULC | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 19, 2024 Reel 66353, frame 886 | Intel Corporation | Altera Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 45 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 8,705,581.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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