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In-play camera associated with headgear used in sporting events and configured to provide wireless transmission of captured video for broadcast to and display at remote video monitors

US 8,319,845 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 27, 2020 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Named at grant Front Row Technologies · find this owner
Filed Oct 27, 2008 as application 12/259,189 · Granted Nov 27, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 27, 2020
2000 2026
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2000
No longer in force
Nov 27, 2020
Granted
Nov 27, 2012
Term would have run to
Dec 17, 2020
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
39
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 Nov 8, 2000, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Oct 27, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Nov 8, 2020High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+39 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 17, 2020High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 27, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 27, 2020From the USPTO record

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