Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 1, 2025 (Western Alliance Bank).
Lapsed Jun 21, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 6, 2027
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Audioeye, Inc.
Filed Mar 6, 2007 as application 11/682,843 · Granted Jun 21, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 10 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 21, 2023
2007
2027
Clock starts
Mar 6, 2007
Mar 6, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 21, 2023
Jun 21, 2023
Granted
Jun 21, 2011
Jun 21, 2011
Term would have run to
Mar 16, 2027
Mar 16, 2027
base term
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
10
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
14
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 Mar 16, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 10 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Mar 6, 2007, when this application, 11/682,843, was filed | Mar 6, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +10 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 16, 2027 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 21, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 21, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,653,544 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,966,184 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,046,229 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 8,260,616 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,296,150 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| Application 13/280,184 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,589,169 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2012/061620 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 14 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2011 Reel 25658, frame 695 | O'conor, William O.; Bradley, Nathaniel T. | Audioeye, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2025 Reel 70694, frame 923 | Audioeye, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 10 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
184
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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