Term ended Aug 8, 2023 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 8, 2023
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,377,236), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Audioeye, Inc.
Filed Jul 10, 2012 as application 13/545,417 · Granted Nov 19, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Aug 8, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2003
Aug 8, 2003
Term ended
Aug 8, 2023
Aug 8, 2023
Granted
Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013
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 8,377,236, to Aug 8, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
14
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Aug 8, 2003, when application 10/637,970, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 10, 2012) | Aug 8, 2023 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,377,236) | resolves to Aug 8, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 8, 2023 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,653,544 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,966,184 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,046,229 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 8,260,616 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,296,150 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| Application 13/280,184 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,589,169 | this patent Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2012/061620 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2013 Reel 31432, frame 784 | Ide, David; Bradley, Nathan T. | Kino Communications, L.l.c. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 18, 2013 Reel 31432, frame 876 | Kino Communications, L.l.c. | Audioeye, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,377,236, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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