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System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization

US 8,015,480 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 6, 2019 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Espial Group Inc. · find this owner
Filed May 15, 2007 as application 11/803,930 · Granted Sep 6, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 960 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 6, 2019
1997 2026
Clock starts
Mar 31, 1997
No longer in force
Sep 6, 2019
Granted
Sep 6, 2011
Term would have run to
Nov 16, 2019
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
960
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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Step Input Date after this step Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 31, 1997, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed May 15, 2007)Mar 31, 2017High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+960 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 16, 2019High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 6, 2019High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 6, 2019From the USPTO record

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