Also listed on Ek Success Ltd., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Nov 12, 2028 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Nicole Tonic Studios

Filed Feb 17, 2012 as application 13/399,723 · Granted Oct 8, 2013

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 12, 2028

2008 2028

Clock starts
Nov 12, 2008

Term ends
Nov 12, 2028

Granted
Oct 8, 2013

base term fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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.

3 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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.

Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Nov 12, 2008, when application 12/291,666, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 17, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Nov 12, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium 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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 12, 2028	Medium confidence

This family

US 7,571,505	In force Jan 2027	Jan 2027
US D640,005	Term ended Jun 2025	Jun 2025
US D679,563	In force Apr 2027	Apr 2027
US 8,931,387	In force Jan 2033	Jan 2033
Application PCT/US2011/039999	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 8,549,972	this patent Nov 2028	Nov 2028
US D724,662	In force Mar 2029	Mar 2029
US D728,263	In force May 2029	May 2029

8 of 17 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
May 21, 2012 Reel 28241, frame 810	Exley, Ross James	Ek Success Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 25, 2012 Reel 29036, frame 310	Ek Success Ltd.	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas	Term Loan Patent Security Agreement
Sep 25, 2012 Reel 29036, frame 587	Ek Success Ltd.	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas	Abl Patent Security Agreement
Dec 23, 2016 Reel 41183, frame 19	E K Success Ltd.	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	Security Agreement
Dec 29, 2016 Reel 40797, frame 388	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Collateral Agent	E K Success Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
May 15, 2017 Reel 42383, frame 487	Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Collateral Agent	E K Success Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
May 16, 2017 Reel 42397, frame 112	E K Success Ltd.	HPS Investment Partners, LLC	Security Interest
Jun 1, 2017 Reel 42565, frame 737	E K Success Ltd.	U.S. Bank National Association	Security Interest
Sep 5, 2018 Reel 46794, frame 361	HPS Investment Partners, LLC, as Collateral Agent	Ek Success Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 6, 2018 Reel 46800, frame 406	U.S. Bank National Association	Ek Success Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
Sep 13, 2018 Reel 46862, frame 822	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	Ek Success Ltd.	Release of Security Interest
Apr 8, 2021 Reel 55869, frame 909	K & Company LLC	American Crafts, L.c.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 11, 2021 Reel 56556, frame 415	Ek Success Ltd. and K & Company LLC	American Crafts L.C.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of Assignor Previously Recorded on Reel 055869 Frame 0909. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Jan 24, 2024 Reel 66368, frame 1	Ek Success Ltd.; K & Company LLC	American Crafts L.C.	Patent Assignment
May 20, 2025 Reel 71172, frame 800	American Crafts L.C.	Nicole Tonic Studios	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Nov 2028

Term ends Nov 12, 2028. No further fees fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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