Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 17, 2021 (Silicon Valley Bank, as Administrative and Collateral Agent).
Term ends Oct 27, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 17, 2034
Held by Fastly, Inc.
Filed Sep 17, 2014 as application 14/488,613 · Granted Feb 6, 2018
Base term plus 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Sep 17, 2014
Sep 17, 2014
Term ends
Oct 27, 2034
Oct 27, 2034
Granted
Feb 6, 2018
Feb 6, 2018
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
40
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,044,609, to Oct 27, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 40 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 17, 2014, when this application, 14/488,613, was filed | Sep 17, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +40 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 27, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,044,609) | resolves to Oct 27, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 27, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,887,914 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2015/014033 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,536,372 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2014 Reel 33757, frame 222 | Bergman, Artur | Fastly, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 17, 2021 Reel 55316, frame 616 | Fastly, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank, as Administrative and Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 27, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,044,609, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
97
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2018 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.