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US 10,713,521 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 14, 2024 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Sep 29, 2017 as application 15/719,575 · Granted Jul 14, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 14, 2024
2017 2037
Clock starts
Jan 5, 2017
No longer in force
Jul 14, 2024
Granted
Jul 14, 2020
Term would have run to
Jul 10, 2037
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
186
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
21
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 10, 2037: its 20-year base term plus 186 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 5, 2017, when application 15/399,704, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 5, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+186 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 10, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 14, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 14, 2024Medium confidence

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Application 14/835,130Abandoned
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US 9,770,199Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,977,947Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,043,847Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,713,521this patent
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US 9,964,436Lapsed on the fee record
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8 of 21 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 2, 2017
Reel 43748, frame 830
You, Kuo-liang; Yang, Kuo-wen; Huang, Cheng-jyun; Chiu, Yu-cheng; Chang, Hao-hsiangGingy Technology Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 14, 2017
Reel 44113, frame 844
Yu, Chih-chiangGingy Technology Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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