Term ended Jan 29, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 20, 2024
Held by Overstock.com, Inc.
Filed Jan 9, 2013 as application 13/737,599 · Granted Oct 31, 2017
Base term plus 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jan 29, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jul 20, 2004
Jul 20, 2004
Term ended
Jan 29, 2025
Jan 29, 2025
Granted
Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017
base term
patent term adjustment
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
193
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 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.
4
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 193 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jul 20, 2004, when application 10/894,813, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 9, 2013) | Jul 20, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 29, 2025 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 29, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,370,269 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2005/018436 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,805,425 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 10,853,891 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2020 Reel 52713, frame 515 | Macdonald-korth, Holly C.; Peterson, Samuel Jacob | Overstock.com, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
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.
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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