Term ends Nov 21, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 21, 2032
Held by Block, Inc.
Filed Jan 17, 2017 as application 15/408,300 · Granted Mar 17, 2020
Base term plus 277 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Nov 21, 2012
Nov 21, 2012
Term ends
Nov 21, 2032
Nov 21, 2032
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 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
277
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 10,185,958, US 9,576,289.
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.
10
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 277 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Nov 21, 2012, when application 13/683,841, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 17, 2017) | Nov 21, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +277 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 25, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,185,958, US 9,576,289) | capped to Nov 21, 2032 | 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 | Nov 21, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,185,958 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 9,589,269 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 9,633,352 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,576,289 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 9,799,034 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 10,592,903 | this patent Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 11,238,451 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 11,854,010 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2017 Reel 40993, frame 764 | Henderson, William; Dorsey, Jack; Grassadonia, Brian; Wilson, Matthew | Square, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 16, 2017 Reel 41602, frame 271 | Henderson, William; Dorsey, Jack; Grassadonia, Brian; Wilson, Matthew | Square, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 18, 2022 Reel 58753, frame 503 | Square, Inc. | Block, Inc. | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Nov 2032
Term ends Nov 21, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 277 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 10,185,958, US 9,576,289.
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.