Term ended Sep 5, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Feb 3, 2025.
Held by Adobe Inc.
Filed May 26, 2014 as application 14/287,169 · Granted Dec 27, 2016
Base term plus 70 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 5, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2003
Jun 27, 2003
Term ended
Sep 5, 2023
Sep 5, 2023
Granted
Dec 27, 2016
Dec 27, 2016
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
70
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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.
This patent's term runs 70 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 27, 2003, when application 10/609,008, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 26, 2014) | Jun 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +70 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 5, 2023 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Feb 3, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 5, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,792,844 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| US 8,738,609 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Application 12/022,779 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,170,993 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 9,053,215 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 9,529,859 | this patent Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2014 Reel 32961, frame 918 | Error, Brett; Pestana, John | Omniture, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 26, 2014 Reel 32961, frame 921 | Omniture, Inc. | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 6, 2019 Reel 48525, frame 42 | Adobe Systems Incorporated | Adobe Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 70 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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