Also listed on Microsoft Corporation, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Lapsed Sep 17, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 24, 2032
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Feb 24, 2012 as application 13/404,381 · Granted Sep 17, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 17, 2025
2012
2032
Clock starts
Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012
No longer in force
Sep 17, 2025
Sep 17, 2025
Granted
Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013
Term would have run to
Feb 24, 2032
Feb 24, 2032
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.
25
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 24, 2032: 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 24, 2012, when this application, 13/404,381, was filed | Feb 24, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 17, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 17, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,392,526 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 8,386,619 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 8,539,086 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 8,438,233 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2012/030115 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,071,509 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 8,959,153 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| US 8,930,459 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
8 of 25 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2012 Reel 27927, frame 220 | Mallet, Vincent; Cheng, Jessica; Gillum, Eric William; Ramanarayanan, Ganesh; Woods, Nicholas James | Color Labs, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 26, 2012 Reel 27927, frame 62 | Fiedel, Noah | Color Labs, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 8, 2014 Reel 31918, frame 149 | Color Labs, Inc. | LinkedIn Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2017 Reel 44746, frame 1 | LinkedIn Corporation | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
102
later US patents cite this one
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