Collateral for a security interest recorded Sep 9, 2014 (Cppib Credit Investments Inc., as Lender).

Lapsed Aug 7, 2016 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.

Filed Aug 19, 2011 as application 13/213,761 · Granted Aug 7, 2012

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Aug 7, 2016

2004 2026

Clock starts
May 3, 2004

No longer in force
Aug 7, 2016

Granted
Aug 7, 2012

Term would have run to
May 3, 2024

base term after the term ends 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.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

0 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.

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 May 3, 2024: its 20-year base term, with no 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 May 3, 2004, when application 10/836,267, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 19, 2011)	May 3, 2024	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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	0 of 2 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Aug 7, 2016	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 7, 2016	High confidence

This family

US 7,867,035	In force Dec 2028	Dec 2028
US 7,688,841	Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022	Mar 2022
US 7,686,653	Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2022	Mar 2022
US 7,690,949	Term ended no later than Jan 2026	no later than Jan 2026
US 7,873,062	Term ended no later than Jan 2026	no later than Jan 2026
US 8,092,258	Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2016	Jan 2016
US 8,235,755	this patent Aug 2016	Aug 2016
US 8,360,810	Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2017	Jan 2017

8 of 10 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 10, 2012 Reel 27512, frame 196	658276 N.B. Ltd.; 658868 N.B. Inc.; MOSAID Technologies Incorporated	Royal Bank of Canada	U.S. Intellectual Property Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) - Short Form
Jan 19, 2012 Reel 27557, frame 663	Binder, Yehuda	Serconet Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 19, 2012 Reel 27558, frame 114	Serconet Ltd.	MOSAID Technologies Incorporated	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 13, 2014 Reel 32439, frame 638	MOSAID Technologies Incorporated	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Change of Name
Aug 7, 2014 Reel 33484, frame 344	Royal Bank of Canada	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.; Conversant IP N.B. 868 Inc.; Conversant IP N.B. 276 Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Aug 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded	Royal Bank of Canada	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Aug 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded	Royal Bank of Canada	Conversant IP N.B. 868 Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Aug 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded	Royal Bank of Canada	Conversant IP N.B. 276 Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 3, 2014 Reel 33678, frame 96	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Change of Address
Sep 9, 2014 Reel 33706, frame 367	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Cppib Credit Investments Inc., as Lender; Royal Bank of Canada, as Lender	U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors)
Sep 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Cppib Credit Investments Inc., as Lender	U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors)
Sep 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Royal Bank of Canada, as Lender	U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors)
Oct 12, 2018 Reel 47645, frame 424	Royal Bank of Canada, as Lender	Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.	Release of U.S. Patent Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors)

Sources

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Citations

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