Term ends Feb 2, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 2, 2031
Held by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Filed Feb 2, 2011 as application 13/019,928 · Granted Nov 27, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Feb 2, 2011
Feb 2, 2011
Term ends
Feb 2, 2031
Feb 2, 2031
Granted
Nov 27, 2012
Nov 27, 2012
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
10
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. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Feb 2, 2011, when this application, 13/019,928, was filed | Feb 2, 2031 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 2, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,961,305 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 8,317,615 | this patent Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 8,913,009 | In force no later than Jul 2032 | no later than Jul 2032 |
| US 8,814,686 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 9,776,083 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 10,449,444 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 11,173,392 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 11,745,097 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2011 Reel 26076, frame 149 | Takeda, Genyo; Kawai, Eizi | Nintendo Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2031
Term ends Feb 2, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Citations
103
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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