Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 10, 2024 (Goldman Sachs Bank USA).
Term ends Dec 18, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 20, 2029
Held by Venuenext, LLC
Filed Aug 18, 2017 as application 15/681,305 · Granted Feb 18, 2020
Base term plus 243 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2009
Oct 20, 2009
Term ends
Dec 18, 2029
Dec 18, 2029
Granted
Feb 18, 2020
Feb 18, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
243
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 9,741,029.
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.
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 runs 243 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 Oct 20, 2009, when application 12/581,961, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 18, 2017) | Oct 20, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +243 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 20, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,741,029) | capped to Dec 18, 2029 | 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 | Dec 18, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,175,913 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 9,741,029 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 10,565,579 | this patent Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2019 Reel 50741, frame 874 | Bellegingsmaatschappij Rostrum B.V. | Venuenext, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 24, 2021 Reel 56338, frame 420 | Venuenext, Inc. | Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch | First Lien Security Agreement Supplement |
| Sep 4, 2024 Reel 68829, frame 694 | Venuenext, Inc. | Venuenext, LLC | Change of Name |
| Sep 10, 2024 Reel 68920, frame 380 | UBS AG Cayman Islands Branch (as Successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent to Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch) | Goldman Sachs Bank USA | Assignment of Security Interest in IP Collateral (056338/0420) |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2029
Term ends Dec 18, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 243 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 9,741,029.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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