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Aircraft in-flight entertainment system including a distributed digital radio service and associated methods

US 8,776,146 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 8, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Livetv, LLC
Filed Dec 28, 2004 as application 11/023,728 · Granted Jul 8, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1006 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 8, 2026
2004 2027
Clock starts
Dec 28, 2004
No longer in force
Jul 8, 2026
Granted
Jul 8, 2014
Term would have run to
Sep 30, 2027
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
1,006
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.

Its term would have run to Sep 30, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 1006 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 28, 2004, when this application, 11/023,728, was filedDec 28, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1006 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 30, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 8, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 8, 2026High confidence

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US 8,776,146this patent
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US 8,917,207In force
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US 8,856,838Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,143,732In force
no later than Dec 2031
no later than Dec 2031
US 8,806,521Lapsed on the fee record
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US 10,212,393In force
no later than Nov 2034
no later than Nov 2034
US 9,003,454In force
Jun 2030
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US 10,291,495In force
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 2, 2005
Reel 16515, frame 38
Funderburk, Jason; Easterling, Scott D.; Keen, Robert M.Livetv, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

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