Term ends Aug 7, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 26, 2033
Held by Auction.com, LLC
Filed Sep 26, 2013 as application 14/038,713 · Granted Jul 4, 2017
Base term plus 680 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2035
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013
Term ends
Aug 7, 2035
Aug 7, 2035
Granted
Jul 4, 2017
Jul 4, 2017
base term
patent term adjustment
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
680
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
3
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 680 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 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 Sep 26, 2013, when this application, 14/038,713, was filed | Sep 26, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +680 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 7, 2035 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 7, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,697,565 | this patent Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2013/062060 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 15/593,048 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2013 Reel 31827, frame 791 | Auction.com, LLC | Suntrust Bank, As Administrative Agent | Security Agreement |
| Jan 14, 2014 Reel 32017, frame 901 | Auction.com, LLC | Suntrust Bank, As Administrative Agent | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Application Number 1306260 and Replace with PCT/US/13/062060 for Online Auction System on Schedule I Previously Recorded on Reel 031827 Frame 0791. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Patent Security Agreement. |
| Aug 8, 2014 Reel 33494, frame 187 | Friedman, Robert; Lo, Albert; Malhotra, Aman | Auction.com, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2015 Reel 37246, frame 814 | Farhoodi, Faramarz | Auction.com, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 9, 2017 Reel 42427, frame 975 | Auction.com, LLC | Ten-X, LLC | Change of Name |
| Sep 29, 2017 Reel 44049, frame 443 | Ten-X, LLC | Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent | First Lien Security Agreement |
| Oct 11, 2017 Reel 44172, frame 884 | Suntrust Bank | Ten-X, LLC (Formerly Known as Auction.com, LLC) | Release of Security Interest Recorded at Reel/Frame 031827/0791 |
| Oct 11, 2017 Reel 44172, frame 899 | Suntrust Bank | Ten-X, LLC (Formerly Known as Auction.com, LLC) | Release of Security Interest Recorded at Reel/Frame 032017/0901 |
| Feb 13, 2019 Reel 48720, frame 595 | Ten-X, LLC | Auction.com, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2035
Term ends Aug 7, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 680 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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