Term ends Jun 15, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 13, 2035
Held by Utac, LLC
Filed May 13, 2015 as application 14/711,570 · Granted Jul 9, 2019
Base term plus 33 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
May 13, 2015
May 13, 2015
Term ends
Jun 15, 2035
Jun 15, 2035
Granted
Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
33
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.
14
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 33 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 May 13, 2015, when this application, 14/711,570, was filed | May 13, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +33 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 15, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 15, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,494,439 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,547,309 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,345,809 | this patent Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2016/032549 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,933,779 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,126,742 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,940,651 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,163,139 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2015 Reel 36940, frame 557 | Ross, William; Bares, John; Larose, David; Sweeney, Matthew | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2016 Reel 38847, frame 853 | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Uber International C.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 9, 2016 Reel 38867, frame 970 | Uber International C.V. | Apparate International C.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 30, 2016 Reel 39589, frame 860 | Apparate International C.V. | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2019 Reel 50912, frame 757 | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Utac, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 3, 2020 Reel 52084, frame 590 | Uber Technologies, Inc. | UATC, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded on Reel 050912 Frame 0757. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Receiving Party Data/Assignee Should Be Uatc, LLC. |
| Mar 10, 2020 Reel 52133, frame 436 | Uber Technologies, Inc. | UATC, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Correct Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 050912 Frame: 0757. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 18, 2020 Reel 54806, frame 332 | UATC, LLC | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 2, 2022 Reel 59692, frame 523 | UATC, LLC | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignment Document Previously Recorded at Reel: 054806 Frame: 0332. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2035
Term ends Jun 15, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 33 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
221
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2019 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
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