Term ends Nov 20, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 30, 2035
Held by Gigsmart, Inc.
Filed Jul 20, 2016 as application 15/112,894 · Granted Mar 17, 2020
Base term plus 691 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2037
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2015
Dec 30, 2015
Term ends
Nov 20, 2037
Nov 20, 2037
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Mar 17, 2020
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
691
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.
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 691 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 Dec 30, 2015, when application PCT/US2015/068094, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 20, 2016) | Dec 30, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +691 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 20, 2037 | 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 | Nov 20, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2015/068094 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,592,952 | this patent Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/057299 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,694,250 | In force Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| US 11,157,982 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 11,170,426 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,954,717 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 12,100,033 | In force no later than Dec 2035 | no later than Dec 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2016 Reel 40154, frame 571 | Catino, Theodore A.; Catino, Beverly A.; Catino, Mitchell A. | Instalabor, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 27, 2016 Reel 40154, frame 596 | Instalabor, LLC | Gigsmart, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 24, 2018 Reel 46619, frame 948 | Gigsmart, LLC | Gigsmart, Inc. | Conversion |
| Sep 19, 2023 Reel 64947, frame 886 | Gigsmart, Inc. | Gigsmart, Inc. | Request to Change Assignee Address |
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What's changing
Nov 2037
Term ends Nov 20, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 691 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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