Lapsed Sep 27, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 7, 2031
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by CA, Inc.
Filed Mar 14, 2015 as application 14/658,161 · Granted Sep 27, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 24 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 27, 2024
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jun 7, 2011
Jun 7, 2011
No longer in force
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
Granted
Sep 27, 2016
Sep 27, 2016
Term would have run to
Jul 1, 2031
Jul 1, 2031
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
24
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,984,490, to Jul 1, 2031. 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.
6
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 Jul 1, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 24 days of term 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 Jun 7, 2011, when application 13/155,363, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 14, 2015) | Jun 7, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +24 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 1, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,984,490) | resolves to Jul 1, 2031, 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 Sep 27, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 27, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/407,008 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,966,454 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| US 8,984,490 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 9,235,490 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 |
| US 10,521,322 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 9,454,450 | this 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 2015 Reel 36583, frame 950 | Interactive Tko, Inc. | Computer Associates Think, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 16, 2015 Reel 36584, frame 10 | Computer Associates Think, Inc. | CA, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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Note
The 24 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,984,490, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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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