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System, Program Product, and Methods for Online Image Handling

US 8,452,691 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed May 28, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (filed) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jul 12, 2011 as application 13/181,016 · Granted May 28, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 28, 2025
2006 2026
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2006
No longer in force
May 28, 2025
Granted
May 28, 2013
Term would have run to
Sep 21, 2026
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
2 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.
3
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 Sep 21, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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 Sep 21, 2006, when application 11/524,985, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 12, 2011)Sep 21, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (filed), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 28, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 28, 2025Medium confidence

This family

US 7,979,340In force
no later than Oct 2027
no later than Oct 2027
US 8,452,691this patent
May 2025
May 2025
US 10,423,997Term ended
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
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
May 22, 2020
Reel 52735, frame 214
Macdonald Korth, Holly C.; Peterson, Samuel JacobOverstock.com, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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