Term ends Oct 14, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 14, 2034
Held by Munchkin, Inc.
Filed Sep 25, 2018 as application 16/141,825 · Granted Nov 10, 2020
Base term plus 59 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014
Term ends
Oct 14, 2034
Oct 14, 2034
Granted
Nov 10, 2020
Nov 10, 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
59
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 10,165,878, US 9,241,588, US 9,801,481.
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.
12
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 59 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 Oct 14, 2014, when application 14/514,186, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 25, 2018) | Oct 14, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +59 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 12, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,165,878, US 9,241,588, US 9,801,481) | capped to Oct 14, 2034 | 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 | Oct 14, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,241,588 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/060744 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US D744,281 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US D741,658 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 9,801,481 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,888,796 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,165,878 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,827,860 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2025 Reel 70740, frame 669 | Munchkin, Inc. | Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a. | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 14, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 59 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 10,165,878, US 9,241,588, US 9,801,481.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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.