Lapsed Dec 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Amdocs Development Limited and Amdocs Software Systems Limited

Filed Nov 11, 2014 as application 14/538,731 · Granted Dec 26, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 246 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Dec 26, 2025

2014 2035

Clock starts
Nov 11, 2014

No longer in force
Dec 26, 2025

Granted
Dec 26, 2017

Term would have run to
Jul 15, 2035

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

246

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 15, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 246 days of term adjustment for 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 Nov 11, 2014, when this application, 14/538,731, was filed	Nov 11, 2034	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+246 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jul 15, 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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Dec 26, 2025	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Dec 26, 2025	High confidence

This family

US 9,853,914	this patent Dec 2025	Dec 2025
US 9,749,218	In force Oct 2035	Oct 2035
US 9,813,335	In force Jan 2035	Jan 2035
US 9,460,286	In force Dec 2034	Dec 2034
US 9,430,262	In force Dec 2034	Dec 2034
US 9,384,028	In force Dec 2034	Dec 2034
US 9,838,265	In force Apr 2035	Apr 2035
US 9,760,428	In force Jul 2035	Jul 2035

8 of 70 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
Mar 6, 2015 Reel 35101, frame 276	Felstaine, Eyal; Kitroser, Itzik; Hermoni, Ofer; Ur, Shmuel	Amdocs Software Systems Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 4, 2016 Reel 39695, frame 965	Amdocs Software Systems Limited	Amdocs Development Limited; Amdocs Software Systems Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 4, 2016 reel/frame not recorded	Amdocs Software Systems Limited	Amdocs Development Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 4, 2016 reel/frame not recorded	Amdocs Software Systems Limited	Amdocs Software Systems Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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Note

The 246 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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