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Communication Device and Method Between an Audiovisual Information Playback System and an Electronic Game Machine

US 7,749,083 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 6, 2018 on the fee record · Low confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed May 14, 2004 as application 10/845,147 · Granted Jul 6, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1456 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 6, 2018
2000 2026
Clock starts
Oct 12, 2000
No longer in force
Jul 6, 2018
Granted
Jul 6, 2010
Term would have run to
Oct 7, 2024
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
1,456
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
176
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Oct 7, 2024: its 20-year base term plus 1456 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Low. 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 Oct 12, 2000, when application 09/686,405, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 14, 2004); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Oct 12, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+1456 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 7, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 6, 2018High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 6, 2018Low confidence

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US 9,646,339Lapsed on the fee record
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US 7,206,417Term ended
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US 8,103,589In force
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US 8,151,304Lapsed on the fee record
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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
Jun 22, 2005
Reel 16712, frame 651
TouchTunes Music CorporationNational Bank of CanadaSecurity Interest
Mar 1, 2006
Reel 17596, frame 811
TouchTunes Music CorporationNational Bank of CanadaSecurity Agreement
Dec 12, 2007
Reel 20227, frame 706
TouchTunes Music CorporationGoldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P., as Collateral AgentSecurity Agreement
Jan 30, 2008
Reel 20431, frame 822
National Bank of CanadaTouchtones Music CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Feb 14, 2012
Reel 27700, frame 488
Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, L.P.TouchTunes Music CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Feb 21, 2012
Reel 27735, frame 525
TouchTunes Music CorporationBank Of America, N.a.Security Agreement
Sep 23, 2015
Reel 36699, frame 813
TouchTunes Music CorporationCitizens Bank, National Association, as Collateral AgentFirst Lien Security Agreement
Sep 24, 2015
Reel 36680, frame 632
TouchTunes Music CorporationCitizens Bank, National Association, as Collateral AgentSecond Lien Security Agreement
Mar 6, 2020
Reel 52115, frame 117
Citizens Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentTouchTunes Music CorporationRelease of Security Interest
Apr 4, 2022
Reel 59593, frame 557
Citizens Bank, National Association (Collateral Agent)TouchTunes Music Corporation (Grantor)Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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