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Method and Device for Recognition of Docking Stations

US 8,397,982 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Mar 19, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 17, 2010 as application 12/971,944 · Granted Mar 19, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 48 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 19, 2021
2010 2031
Clock starts
Dec 17, 2010
No longer in force
Mar 19, 2021
Granted
Mar 19, 2013
Term would have run to
Feb 3, 2031
base term patent term adjustment 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
48
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 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.
9
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 Feb 3, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 48 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 17, 2010, when this application, 12/971,944, was filedDec 17, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+48 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 3, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 19, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 19, 2021High confidence

This family

Application 12/393,183Abandoned
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US 8,397,982this patent
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
US 9,789,986In force
May 2031
May 2031
US 8,651,368Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
US 10,261,940In force
Feb 2029
Feb 2029
US 10,901,941In force
Apr 2029
Apr 2029
Application 17/005,606Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 11,630,801In force
Feb 2029
Feb 2029
8 of 9 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 17, 2010
Reel 25519, frame 952
Slaby, Jiri; Ady, Roger W; Pierce, Paul MMotorola Mobility, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 21, 2012
Reel 28829, frame 856
Motorola Mobility, Inc.Motorola Mobility LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 7, 2015
Reel 35379, frame 116
Motorola Mobility LLCGoogle Technology Holdings LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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