Term ends Feb 4, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 27, 2040
Held by Square Enix Ltd.
Filed Nov 18, 2020 as application 17/056,664 · Granted Apr 4, 2023
Base term plus 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jan 27, 2020
Jan 27, 2020
Term ends
Feb 4, 2040
Feb 4, 2040
Granted
Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 2023
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
8
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
2
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 8 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jan 27, 2020, when application PCT/GB2020/050178, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 18, 2020) | Jan 27, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +8 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 4, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Feb 4, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,617,950 | this patent Feb 2040 | Feb 2040 |
1 of 2 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Feb 2040
Term ends Feb 4, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 8 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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