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US 9,438,631 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 6, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Nov 13, 2014 as application 14/541,007 · Granted Sep 6, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 26 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Sep 6, 2024
2013 2033
Clock starts
Jan 11, 2013
No longer in force
Sep 6, 2024
Granted
Sep 6, 2016
Term would have run to
Jan 11, 2033
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
26
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 8,918,881.
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.
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 Jan 11, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 26 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 11, 2013, when application 13/740,051, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 13, 2014)Jan 11, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+26 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 6, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,918,881)capped to Jan 11, 2033High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 6, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 6, 2024High confidence

This family

US 8,918,881In force
Jan 2033
Jan 2033
Application PCT/US2013/025991PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,438,631this patent
Sep 2024
Sep 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 30, 2019
Reel 49506, frame 163
Appthority, Inc.Appthority LLCEntity Conversion
Jun 19, 2019
Reel 49524, frame 538
Appthority LLCSymantec CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 21, 2019
Reel 51144, frame 918
Symantec CorporationCA, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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