Lapsed Mar 11, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 24, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Signify Holding B.V.
Filed Oct 27, 2012 as application 13/662,464 · Granted Mar 11, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 11, 2022
2009
2029
Clock starts
Jul 24, 2009
Jul 24, 2009
No longer in force
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022
Granted
Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014
Term would have run to
Jul 24, 2029
Jul 24, 2029
base term
after the term ends
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,297,782, to Jul 24, 2029. 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.
10
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 Jul 24, 2029: 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. 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 Jul 24, 2009, when application 12/509,380, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 27, 2012) | Jul 24, 2029 | 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 8,297,782) | resolves to Jul 24, 2029, 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 Mar 11, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 11, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,297,782 | In force (reinstated) Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,310,049 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 9,310,027 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 8,668,350 | this patent Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 10,612,726 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 10,544,904 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application 16/773,862 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/822,936 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 29, 2012 Reel 29378, frame 364 | Lumigrow, Inc. | LSJP Associates LLC | Security Agreement |
| Aug 17, 2015 Reel 36342, frame 897 | LSJP Associates LLC | Lumigrow, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 21, 2015 Reel 36642, frame 536 | Lumigrow, Inc. | Ahk Enterprises, LLC | Security Interest |
| Aug 10, 2017 Reel 43262, frame 795 | Lumigrow, Inc. | Windsail Credit Fund, L.P., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Mar 29, 2018 Reel 45389, frame 70 | Bafetti, Vincent H.; Wells, Kevin T. | Lumigrow, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 11, 2022 Reel 59893, frame 156 | Ahk Enterprises, LLC | Lumigrow, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 19, 2022 Reel 60119, frame 394 | Windsail Credit Fund, L.p. | Windsail Capital Fund, L.p. | Assignment of Security Interest |
| May 19, 2022 Reel 60119, frame 641 | Windsail Capital Fund, L.P., as Secured Party | Agtech Holdings, Inc. | Foreclosure Sale |
| Sep 27, 2022 Reel 61225, frame 294 | Agtech Holdings, Inc. | Signify Holding B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2022 Reel 61225, frame 425 | Windsail Capital Fund, L.p. | Signify Holding B.V. | Release of Security Interest |
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,297,782, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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