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Modular Lighting System

US 10,047,938 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 14, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Oct 13, 2016 as application 15/293,060 · Granted Aug 14, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 72 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 14, 2026
2016 2036
Clock starts
Jul 15, 2016
No longer in force
Aug 14, 2026
Granted
Aug 14, 2018
Term would have run to
Sep 25, 2036
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
72
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.
7
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 Sep 25, 2036: its 20-year base term plus 72 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 15, 2016, when application 15/211,904, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 13, 2016)Jul 15, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+72 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 25, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 14, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 14, 2026High confidence

This family

US 9,568,171In force
Jul 2036
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US 10,047,938this patent
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US 10,215,383In force
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US 10,782,007In force
Jul 2036
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Application PCT/US2019/033935PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,047,556Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2025
Jun 2025
US 11,578,859In force
no later than Jul 2036
no later than Jul 2036
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 19, 2017
Reel 41014, frame 805
Grider, Christopher; Smith, DerekTTP Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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