Term ends Aug 14, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 18, 2035
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Snap Inc.
Filed Dec 1, 2017 as application 15/829,543 · Granted Mar 24, 2020
Base term plus 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Mar 18, 2015
Mar 18, 2015
Term ends
Aug 14, 2035
Aug 14, 2035
Granted
Mar 24, 2020
Mar 24, 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
149
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.
8
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 149 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 18, 2015, when application 14/661,539, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 1, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 18, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +149 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 14, 2035 | 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 | Aug 14, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,576,190 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 9,852,328 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,235,562 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,599,917 | this patent Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
| US 10,255,488 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,949,655 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,963,679 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 11,652,956 | In force no later than Aug 2035 | no later than Aug 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2020 Reel 51784, frame 628 | Shaburov, Victor; Monastyrshin, Yurii | Looksery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2020 Reel 51784, frame 709 | Looksery, Inc. | Avatar Acquisition Corp. | Merger |
| Feb 11, 2020 Reel 51784, frame 754 | Avatar Acquisition Corp. | Avatar Merger Sub II, LLC. | Merger |
| Feb 11, 2020 Reel 51784, frame 806 | Avatar Merger Sub II, LLC | Snap Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2035
Term ends Aug 14, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 149 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
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
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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.