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US 8,582,827 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 12, 2021 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Location Based Services LLC
Filed Sep 18, 2012 as application 13/622,337 · Granted Nov 12, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Nov 12, 2021
2005 2026
Clock starts
Feb 25, 2005
No longer in force
Nov 12, 2021
Granted
Nov 12, 2013
Term would have run to
Feb 25, 2025
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,270,683, to Feb 25, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 filingClock starts Feb 25, 2005, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 18, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Feb 25, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,270,683)resolves to Feb 25, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no changeMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 12, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 12, 2021Medium confidence

Sources

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Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built

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