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Native Instruments GmbH

12 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026
Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.
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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.
  • 1 fee due Apr 1, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Device, a method and/or a non-transitory computer-readable storage means for controlling playback of digital multimedia data using touch input (US 10,430,069) comes due Apr 1, 2027. Unpaid by Oct 1, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 3 fees due May 10 to 24, 2027 · next May 10
  • 1 fee due Jun 3, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Device and method for controlling playback of digital multimedia data as well as a corresponding computer-readable storage medium and a corresponding computer program (US 10,496,199) comes due Jun 3, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 3, 2027, it lapses early.
  • 1 fee due Nov 10, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Electronic music instrument with touch-sensitive means (US 9,336,762) comes due Nov 10, 2027. Unpaid by May 10, 2028, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

Nothing was recorded against this company's patents in the last 90 days.

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.
PatentTitleStatus Expires Confidence
US 9,189,457Method for distributing computing load in a data processing system
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US 8,750,530Method and arrangement for processing audio data, and a corresponding corresponding computer-readable storage medium
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US 8,675,454Apparatus and method for signal processing
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US 10,496,199Device and method for controlling playback of digital multimedia data as well as a corresponding computer-readable storage medium and a corresponding computer program
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US 9,753,616Method, apparatus and computer-readable storage means for adjusting at least two parameters
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US 9,857,948Method, apparatus and computer-readable storage means for adjusting at least one parameter
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US 9,183,820Electronic music instrument and method for controlling an electronic music instrument
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US 9,196,236Electronic music instrument, system and method for operating an electronic music instrument
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US 9,336,762Electronic music instrument with touch-sensitive means
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US 9,552,801Electronic music instrument, system and method for controlling an electronic music instrument
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Sources and methods

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Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Published applications

US patent applications published under this name that have not become patents. An application is published about eighteen months after its earliest filing; one that has not been published is in no public record.

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