Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 20, 2024 (MS Private Credit Administrative Services LLC).

Term ended Feb 8, 2025 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Grass Valley Canada

Filed Jun 17, 2015 as application 14/742,565 · Granted Jul 3, 2018

Base term plus 312 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Feb 8, 2025

2004 2026

Clock starts
Apr 2, 2004

Term ended
Feb 8, 2025

Granted
Jul 3, 2018

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

312

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 9,098,193, to Feb 8, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 312 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. 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 Apr 2, 2004, when application PCT/AU2004/000441, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 17, 2015)	Apr 2, 2024	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+312 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 8, 2025	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,098,193)	resolves to Feb 8, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change	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	Feb 8, 2025	High confidence

This family

US 9,098,193	In force Oct 2028	Oct 2028
US 10,013,154	this patent Feb 2025	Feb 2025
Application 16/018,619	Abandoned not computed	not computed

3 of 4 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
Sep 29, 2015 Reel 36685, frame 811	Stoneham, Mark; Griggs, David; Sabine, David; Caves, Matthew; Broadbridge, Graham; Reznik, Michael; Grealy, Colin; Morrison, Craig; Barnett, Thomas; McMillan, Christopher	Evolution Broadcast Pty Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 29, 2015 Reel 36685, frame 902	Evolution Broadcast Pty Limited	Evolution Pty Limited	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 29, 2015 Reel 36685, frame 951	Evolution Pty Limited	Grass Valley Australia Pty Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 30, 2018 Reel 45667, frame 144	Grass Valley Australia Pty Ltd.	Grass Valley Canada	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 2, 2020 Reel 53122, frame 666	Grass Valley USA, LLC; Grass Valley Canada; Grass Valley Limited	MGG Investment Group LP, as Collateral Agent	Grant of Security Interest - Patents
Mar 20, 2024 Reel 66850, frame 869	Grass Valley Canada; Grass Valley Limited	MS Private Credit Administrative Services LLC	Security Interest
Mar 21, 2024 Reel 66867, frame 336	MGG Investment Group LP	Grass Valley USA, LLC; Grass Valley Canada; Grass Valley Limited	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement
Mar 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	MGG Investment Group LP	Grass Valley USA, LLC	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement
Mar 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	MGG Investment Group LP	Grass Valley Canada	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement
Mar 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded	MGG Investment Group LP	Grass Valley Limited	Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement
Dec 12, 2025 Reel 73959, frame 584	MS Private Credit Administrative Services LLC	MGG Investment Group LP	Assignment of Intellectual Property Security Agreements

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Note

The 312 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 9,098,193, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is below the median 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.

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