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Lapsed Jun 11, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Mattel, Inc.
Filed Mar 17, 2009 as application 12/381,905 · Granted Jun 11, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 91 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 11, 2021
2009 2029
Clock starts
Mar 17, 2009
No longer in force
Jun 11, 2021
Granted
Jun 11, 2013
Term would have run to
Jun 16, 2029
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
91
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.
105
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 Jun 16, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 91 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 Mar 17, 2009, when this application, 12/381,905, was filedMar 17, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+91 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 16, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jun 11, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 11, 2021High confidence

This family

Application 12/381,666Abandoned
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Application 12/381,663Abandoned
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US 8,463,764this patent
Jun 2021
Jun 2021
Application 12/383,001Abandoned
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US 9,501,750Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2024
Nov 2024
Application 61/216,717Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 61/216,718Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 12/459,171Abandoned
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8 of 105 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
Jun 7, 2012
Reel 28338, frame 588
Fujioka, Robb; Okimoto, DarylFuhu Holdings, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 28, 2015
Reel 35775, frame 173
Fuhu, Inc.Obsidian Agency Services, Inc.Security Interest
Feb 25, 2016
Reel 37917, frame 16
Fuhu Holdings, Inc.Mattel, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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