Lapsed Nov 19, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 13, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Square, Inc.
Filed Oct 13, 2010 as application 12/903,758 · Granted Nov 19, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 54 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 19, 2021
2010
2030
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2010
Oct 13, 2010
No longer in force
Nov 19, 2021
Nov 19, 2021
Granted
Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013
Term would have run to
Dec 6, 2030
Dec 6, 2030
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
54
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.
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 Dec 6, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 54 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 13, 2010, when this application, 12/903,758, was filed | Oct 13, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +54 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 6, 2030 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 19, 2021 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 19, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,376,431 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,684,809 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 7,914,994 | Term ended Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| Application 12/707,228 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,177,407 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 8,534,546 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application 12/903,753 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,584,956 | this patent 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 2010 Reel 25456, frame 381 | Wilson, Matt; Wen, Sam | Square, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2015 Reel 37055, frame 715 | Square, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Aug 11, 2017 Reel 43532, frame 662 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Square, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 54 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
88
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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