Term ends Dec 23, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 23, 2030
Held by Mongodb, Inc.
Filed Oct 28, 2013 as application 14/064,705 · Granted Apr 19, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010
Term ends
Dec 23, 2030
Dec 23, 2030
Granted
Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
53
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Dec 23, 2010, when application 12/977,563, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2013) | Dec 23, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Dec 23, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,572,031 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,740,762 | In force Nov 2031 | Nov 2031 |
| US 8,996,463 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 9,805,108 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 9,262,462 | In force no later than Sep 2033 | no later than Sep 2033 |
| US 9,317,576 | this patent Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 9,792,322 | In force no later than Jul 2033 | no later than Jul 2033 |
| US 9,881,034 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
8 of 53 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 7, 2016 Reel 37911, frame 438 | Merriman, Dwight; Horowitz, Eliot | 10GEN | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 7, 2016 Reel 38022, frame 227 | 10GEN, Inc. | Mongodb, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 17, 2020 Reel 52183, frame 68 | Merriman, Dwight; Horowitz, Eliot | 10GEN, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 037911 Frame 0438. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2030
Term ends Dec 23, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
148
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.