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30 active trading patents, expiring within 18 months
Every tombstone below is a live countdown, computed client-side against our term-expiry estimate. When the clock hits zero, the card's math says the patent has entered the public domain.
Dates here are estimates from patent-term math (20 years from filing, or the older 17-from-grant/20-from-filing rule for pre-1995 filings), not a legal determination. They ignore patent-term adjustments, extensions, and terminal disclaimers, and don't reflect maintenance-fee lapses that haven't happened yet. This is not legal advice.
In-depth death notices
A few of the 30 get the full treatment: history, context, what becomes free.
US8301675 — Computer system for predicting the evolution of a chro…The BGC Partners cluster — Five BGC Partners electronic-trading patents, filed th…US7440920 — Tool for estimating a cost of a tradeUS7434096 — Match server for a financial exchange having fault tol…US7402104B2 — Video game apparatus, storage medium storing video gam…
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Computer system for predicting the evolution of a chronological set of…
US8301675
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est. expiry 2026-07-07
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Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service
US8019637
Sermo, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-07
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Method and apparatus for conducting an online information service
US8019639
Sermo, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-07
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Method and apparatus for conducting an information brokering service
US10510087
Sermo, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-07
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Systems and methods for sharing data from web accessed calculators
US7716156
United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
est. expiry 2026-07-13
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Construction payment management system and method with graphical user …
US7797210
Textura Corporation
est. expiry 2026-07-13
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Providing transparent health care information to consumers
US8510124
Aetna Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-13
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Method and apparatus for lower of cost or market value monitoring and …
US8108271
Intuit Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-18
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Assessment of click or traffic quality
US8209406
Adobe Systems Incorporated
est. expiry 2026-07-18
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Management method and system for a user
US8775214
Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC
est. expiry 2026-07-19
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Methods and apparatuses for pay-per-call advertising in mobile/wireles…
US7505920
UTBK, LLC
est. expiry 2026-07-21
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Method and system for financially monitoring an order
US7761367
Intuit Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-25
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Navigating images using image based geometric alignment and object bas…
US8160400
Microsoft Corporation
est. expiry 2026-07-25
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Method and system for enterprise portfolio management based on compone…
US7991669
International Business Machines Corporation
est. expiry 2026-07-26
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System and method for routing trading orders in an electronic trading …
US7805357
BGC Partners, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-27
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System and method for limiting aggressive trading in a electronic trad…
US7805358
BGC Partners, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-07-27
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Methods and systems for analyzing and predicting market winners and lo…
US7742963
Barclays Capital Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-01
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Using commercial share of wallet in private equity investments
US7822665
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-02
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Using commercial share of wallet to rate investments
US7792732
American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-02
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System and method for replenishing quantities of trading orders
US7644031
BGC Partners, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-03
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System and method for apportioning trading orders based on size of dis…
US8484122
BGC Partners, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-03
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System and method for matching electronic proposals to electronic requ…
US8781942
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-03
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Method and system for updating a loan portfolio with information on se…
US7809635
Corelogic Information Solutions, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-04
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Method and system for monitoring for and reporting of lien distress ev…
US7747520
First American Corelogic, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-04
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Method and system for dynamically controlling overtime in electronic a…
US7558746
Ariba, Inc.
est. expiry 2026-08-07