Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 3, 2025 (Wilmington Trust, National Association).
Term ends Apr 28, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 28, 2034
Held by Hardware Resources, Inc.
Filed Apr 11, 2017 as application 15/485,081 · Granted Sep 25, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014
Term ends
Apr 28, 2034
Apr 28, 2034
Granted
Sep 25, 2018
Sep 25, 2018
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,169,681, to Apr 28, 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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Apr 28, 2014, when application 14/263,788, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 11, 2017) | Apr 28, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,169,681) | resolves to Apr 28, 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 | Apr 28, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,169,681 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| US 9,617,773 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| US 10,081,975 | this patent Apr 2034 | Apr 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 2017 Reel 41971, frame 500 | Cooper, Rachel; McGregor, Dennis | Hardware Resources, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 25, 2017 Reel 43676, frame 629 | Hardware Resources, Inc. | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch as Collateral Agent | First Lien Security Agreement |
| Aug 28, 2017 Reel 43687, frame 111 | Hardware Resources, Inc. | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | Second Lien Security Agreement |
| Dec 28, 2020 Reel 54857, frame 272 | Primesource Building Products, Inc.; Hardware Resources, Inc.; Top Knobs USA, Inc.; Watermark Designs, LLC | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | First Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Dec 28, 2020 Reel 54857, frame 356 | Primesource Building Products, Inc.; Hardware Resources, Inc.; Top Knobs USA, Inc.; Watermark Designs, LLC | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | Abl Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Dec 29, 2020 Reel 54861, frame 189 | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Hardware Resources, Inc.; Top Knobs USA, Inc. | Release of Security Interests (Second Lien) |
| Dec 29, 2020 Reel 54874, frame 222 | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Hardware Resources, Inc.; Top Knobs USA, Inc. | Release of Security Interests (First Lien) |
| Dec 29, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Hardware Resources, Inc. | Release of Security Interests (Second Lien) |
| Dec 29, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Top Knobs USA, Inc. | Release of Security Interests (Second Lien) |
| Dec 29, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Hardware Resources, Inc. | Release of Security Interests (First Lien) |
| Dec 29, 2020 reel/frame not recorded | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch | Top Knobs USA, Inc. | Release of Security Interests (First Lien) |
| Oct 3, 2025 Reel 72996, frame 843 | Primesource Building Products, Inc.; Watermark Designs, LLC; Hardware Resources, Inc.; Top Knobs USA, Inc.; Nationwide Industries, LLC; WSB Hardware, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent | First Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Oct 23, 2025 Reel 73191, frame 683 | Primesource Building Products, Inc.; Watermark Designs, LLC; Hardware Resources, Inc.; Top Knobs USA, Inc.; Nationwide Industries, LLC; WSB Hardware, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent | Second Lien Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
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What's changing
Apr 2034
Term ends Apr 28, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,169,681, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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