Radio Controlled Vehicle, Remote Controller and Methods for Use Therewith

US 8,649,918 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Feb 11, 2022 on the fee record · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Drone-Control, LLC

Filed Nov 29, 2012 as application 13/688,886 · Granted Feb 11, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Feb 11, 2022

2008 2028

Clock starts
Feb 12, 2008

No longer in force
Feb 11, 2022

Granted
Feb 11, 2014

Term would have run to
Feb 12, 2028

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 8,380,368, to Feb 12, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 12, 2008, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Nov 29, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Feb 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	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,380,368)	resolves to Feb 12, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Feb 11, 2022	High confidence
Further caveats on record	The record names parents not resolved: 13471642, 12029470	Low confidence overall	Low confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Feb 11, 2022	Low confidence

Sources

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

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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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Radio Controlled Vehicle, Remote Controller and Methods for Use Therewith

Lapsed Feb 11, 2022 on the fee record · Low confidence

20-year base term ends Feb 12, 2028

How we calculated this date

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