Term ended Mar 23, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 23, 2024
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jul 14, 2025.
Held by salesforce.com, inc.
Filed Apr 14, 2015 as application 14/686,461 · Granted Jun 6, 2017
Base term plus 231 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Mar 23, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Mar 23, 2004
Mar 23, 2004
Term ended
Mar 23, 2024
Mar 23, 2024
Granted
Jun 6, 2017
Jun 6, 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
231
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 9,032,023.
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 231 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: Medium. 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 23, 2004, when application 10/808,212, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 14, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 23, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +231 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,032,023) | capped to Mar 23, 2024 | Medium 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 Jul 14, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 23, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,739,351 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 9,032,023 | Term ended no later than Mar 2024 | no later than Mar 2024 |
| US 9,674,226 | this patent Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| US 10,516,700 | Term ended Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
4 of 6 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Note
The 231 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 9,032,023.
Citations
2
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.
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