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Systems and Methods for Card Present Transaction Without Sharing Card Information

US 8,534,546 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 17, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Block, Inc.
Filed Oct 13, 2010 as application 12/903,823 · Granted Sep 17, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 17, 2025
2010 2030
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2010
No longer in force
Sep 17, 2025
Granted
Sep 17, 2013
Term would have run to
Oct 13, 2030
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
98
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 Oct 13, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Oct 13, 2010, when this application, 12/903,823, was filedOct 13, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 17, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 17, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,376,431Term ended
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 7,684,809Term ended
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
US 7,914,994Term ended
Dec 2018
Dec 2018
Application 12/707,228Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 9,177,407In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 8,534,546this patent
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
Application 12/903,753Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,584,956Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
8 of 98 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 7, 2010
Reel 25466, frame 718
McKelvey, JimSquare, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 5, 2015
Reel 37055, frame 715
Square, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentPatent Security Agreement
Aug 11, 2017
Reel 43532, frame 662
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentSquare, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jan 18, 2022
Reel 58753, frame 503
Square, Inc.Block, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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