Term ends Feb 24, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 24, 2027
Held by Trend Micro Kabushiki Kaisha
Filed Jul 17, 2014 as application 14/334,136 · Granted Mar 21, 2017
Base term plus 128 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Feb 24, 2007
Feb 24, 2007
Term ends
Feb 24, 2027
Feb 24, 2027
Granted
Mar 21, 2017
Mar 21, 2017
base term
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
128
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 7,987,196, US 8,117,229.
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.
11
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 128 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Feb 24, 2007, when application 11/678,587, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 17, 2014) | Feb 24, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +128 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 2, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,987,196, US 8,117,229) | capped to Feb 24, 2027 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 24, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,630,982 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,899,842 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 7,987,196 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 8,069,183 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 8,117,229 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 8,423,572 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 8,812,547 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 9,600,537 | this patent Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 2014 Reel 33335, frame 972 | Boyce, Kevin Gerard | Third Brigade Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2014 Reel 33336, frame 44 | Third Brigade Inc. | Trend Micro Kabushiki Kaisha | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2014 Reel 33358, frame 230 | Trend Micro Kabushiki Kaisha | Trend Micro Incorporated | Confirmation of Company Name and Address |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2027
Term ends Feb 24, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 128 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 7,987,196, US 8,117,229.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.