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US 10,502,980 In force
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Term ends Feb 17, 2031 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Oakley, Inc.
Filed Mar 30, 2017 as application 15/474,676 · Granted Dec 10, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2011 2031
Clock starts
Feb 17, 2011
Term ends
Feb 17, 2031
Granted
Dec 10, 2019
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
13
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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 17, 2011, when application 13/029,997, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 30, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 17, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 17, 2031Medium confidence

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8 of 13 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 17, 2017
Reel 42412, frame 563
McCabe, Brock Scott; Saylor, Ryan; Reyes, Carlos D.Oakley, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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