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Systems and Methods for Targeting Policymaker Communication

US 11,151,677 Lapsed on the fee record
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Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 1, 2021 (Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc.).

Lapsed Oct 19, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 16, 2020 as application 17/098,723 · Granted Oct 19, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 19, 2025
2017 2037
Clock starts
Apr 21, 2017
No longer in force
Oct 19, 2025
Granted
Oct 19, 2021
Term would have run to
Apr 21, 2037
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,839,470, to Apr 21, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Apr 21, 2037: 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. Confidence: High. from the record

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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 Apr 21, 2017, when application 15/494,346, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 16, 2020)Apr 21, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,839,470)resolves to Apr 21, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 19, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 19, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,839,470In force (reinstated)
Jul 2039
Jul 2039
US 11,151,677this patent
Oct 2025
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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
Feb 23, 2021
Reel 55365, frame 558
Eidelman, Vladimir; Argyle, DanielFiscalnote, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 23, 2021
Reel 55365, frame 692
Kornilova, Anastasisa; Farmer, FallonFiscalnote, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 1, 2021
Reel 57682, frame 939
Fiscalnote, Inc.; CQ-Roll Call, Inc.; Capitol Advantage LLC; Votervoice, L.l.c.; Sandhill Strategy LLC; Fiscalnote Holdings, Inc.; Fiscalnote Holdings II, Inc.Runway Growth Credit Fund Inc., as AgentPatent Security Agreement
Aug 12, 2025
Reel 71991, frame 938
Fiscalnote, Inc.; Predata, Inc.MGG Investment Group LPSecurity Interest
Aug 12, 2025
Reel 72001, frame 12
Runway Growth Finance Corp., as AgentFiscalnote, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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