Term ends Apr 28, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 28, 2028
Held by ByteDance Inc.
Filed May 5, 2014 as application 14/269,765 · Granted Jan 28, 2020
Base term plus 480 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Apr 28, 2008
Apr 28, 2008
Term ends
Apr 28, 2028
Apr 28, 2028
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
Jan 28, 2020
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
480
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,135,505, US 8,756,011.
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.
6
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 480 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 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 Apr 28, 2008, when application 12/150,565, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 5, 2014) | Apr 28, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +480 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 21, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,135,505, US 8,756,011) | capped to Apr 28, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 28, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,135,505 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 8,756,011 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 10,546,323 | this patent Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 11,669,864 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| US 12,106,326 | In force Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
| Application 18/761,921 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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, 2016 Reel 40199, frame 469 | Vengroff, Darren E; Downs, Oliver B | Pelago, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 2, 2016 Reel 40199, frame 591 | Pelago, Inc. | Groupon, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 21, 2019 Reel 50114, frame 37 | Vengroff, Darren E.; Downs, Oliver B. | Pelago, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 21, 2019 Reel 50114, frame 87 | Pelago, Inc. | Groupon, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2020 Reel 53294, frame 495 | Groupon, Inc.; Livingsocial, LLC | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 Reel 66676, frame 1 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc.; Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 Reel 66676, frame 251 | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc.; Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Groupon, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights |
| Feb 26, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Livingsocial, LLC (F/K/A Livingsocial, Inc.) | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property Rights |
| Aug 12, 2024 Reel 68833, frame 811 | Groupon, Inc. | ByteDance Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2028
Term ends Apr 28, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 480 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,135,505, US 8,756,011.
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
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