Term ended Jun 13, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 12, 2034
Held by Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Filed May 16, 2014 as application 14/280,413 · Granted Jan 17, 2017
Base term plus 44 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Jun 13, 2025
2014
2034
Clock starts
Mar 12, 2014
Mar 12, 2014
Term ended
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025
Granted
Jan 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017
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
44
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 9,002,900.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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.
This patent's term runs 44 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 12, 2014, when application 14/206,458, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 16, 2014) | Mar 12, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +44 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 25, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,002,900) | capped to Jun 13, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 13, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,002,990 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,549,040 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 10,313,473 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2015/017942 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2015/017943 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,887,419 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2014 Reel 33459, frame 170 | Anand, Ashok; Subramanya, Manjunath Bharadwaj | Instart Logic, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 20, 2020 Reel 52175, frame 621 | Instart Logic, Inc. | Akamai Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 44 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,002,900.
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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