Term ends Oct 18, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 18, 2032
Held by NetApp Inc.
Filed May 23, 2016 as application 15/162,496 · Granted Sep 5, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012
Term ends
Oct 18, 2032
Oct 18, 2032
Granted
Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Oct 18, 2012, when application 13/655,263, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 23, 2016) | Oct 18, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Oct 18, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,348,538 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2013/065699 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,753,938 | this patent Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 10,565,165 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 11,169,967 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| Application 17/520,746 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2032
Term ends Oct 18, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
5
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.
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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.