Term ends Mar 18, 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 Mar 12, 2019 as application 16/299,472 · Granted Mar 30, 2021
Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Mar 18, 2015
Mar 18, 2015
Term ends
Mar 18, 2035
Mar 18, 2035
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021
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
79
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 9,576,190.
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 79 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: 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 Mar 12, 2019); 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 | +79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 5, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,576,190) | capped to Mar 18, 2035 | 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 | Mar 18, 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 | In force 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2020 Reel 54211, frame 976 | Shaburov, Victor; Monastyrshin, Yurii | Looksery, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 29, 2020 Reel 54212, frame 40 | Looksery, Inc. | Avatar Acquisition Corp. | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2020 Reel 54212, frame 106 | Avatar Acquisition Corp. | Avatar Merger Sub II, LLC | Merger |
| Oct 29, 2020 Reel 54212, frame 150 | Avatar Merger Sub II, LLC | Snap Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Mar 2035
Term ends Mar 18, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 79 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 9,576,190.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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