Term ends Aug 18, 2034 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 18, 2034
Held by Universal City Studios LLC
Filed Feb 28, 2019 as application 16/289,197 · Granted Mar 31, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014
Term ends
Aug 18, 2034
Aug 18, 2034
Granted
Mar 31, 2020
Mar 31, 2020
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,241,568, US 9,690,375, to Aug 18, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Aug 18, 2014, when application 14/462,249, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 18, 2034 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,241,568, US 9,690,375) | resolves to Aug 18, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15633705, 14462249 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 18, 2034 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 9,690,375 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2015/044451 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,241,568 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,606,348 | this patent Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 11,586,277 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,147,594 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 18/950,996 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/022,444 | Pending not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2034
Term ends Aug 18, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,241,568, US 9,690,375, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.