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Systems and Methods for Injecting Content

US 12,267,398 In force
OverviewFamilySources & methods

Term ends Sep 28, 2027 · High confidence

Filed Jan 28, 2022 as application 17/587,421 · Granted Apr 1, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2027
Clock starts
Sep 28, 2007
Term ends
Sep 28, 2027
Granted
Apr 1, 2025
base term 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 8,868,740, to Sep 28, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
6
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 is 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. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 28, 2007, when application 11/864,319, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 28, 2022)Sep 28, 2027High 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 8,868,740)resolves to Sep 28, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo maintenance fee can end the term earlyIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 28, 2027High confidence

This family

US 8,868,740In force
Sep 2029
Sep 2029
US 9,330,400In force
Oct 2027
Oct 2027
Application 15/142,706Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,778,787In force
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
US 11,272,019In force
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
US 12,267,398this patent
Sep 2027
Sep 2027
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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