Lapsed May 3, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 21, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Compuverde AB
Filed Jun 28, 2011 as application 13/170,672 · Granted May 3, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 3, 2024
2009
2029
Clock starts
Oct 21, 2009
Oct 21, 2009
No longer in force
May 3, 2024
May 3, 2024
Granted
May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016
Term would have run to
Oct 21, 2029
Oct 21, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,688,630, US 9,026,559, to Oct 21, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 Oct 21, 2029: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Oct 21, 2009, when application PCT/EP2009/063796, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 28, 2011) | Oct 21, 2029 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,688,630, US 9,026,559) | resolves to Oct 21, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 3, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 3, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,329,955 | this patent May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 9,026,559 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,688,630 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 9,495,432 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 10,650,022 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 11,468,088 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 11,907,256 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2013 Reel 31299, frame 981 | Ilt Innovations AB | Compuverde AB | Change of Name |
| Aug 26, 2020 Reel 53867, frame 581 | Pure Storage, Inc. | Barclays Bank PLC as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Jun 11, 2025 Reel 71558, frame 523 | Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent | Pure Storage, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,688,630, US 9,026,559, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 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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