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High Efficiency Roller Shade

US 8,791,658 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 29, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 20, 2013 as application 13/847,607 · Granted Jul 29, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 29, 2022
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Clock starts
Feb 23, 2010
No longer in force
Jul 29, 2022
Granted
Jul 29, 2014
Term would have run to
Feb 23, 2030
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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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.
22
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 Feb 23, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 23, 2010, when application 12/711,192, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 20, 2013)Feb 23, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 29, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 29, 2022High confidence

This family

US 8,299,734Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,659,246Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,575,872Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,018,868In force
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US 8,791,658this patent
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US 9,194,179In force
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US 8,947,027In force
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8 of 22 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
Nov 23, 2015
Reel 37121, frame 939
Mullet, Willis Jay; Hand, Richard Scott; Brunk, Darrin W.Homerun Holdings CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 24, 2015
Reel 37157, frame 235
Homerun Holdings CorporationQmotion IncorporatedChange of Name
Jan 28, 2016
Reel 37608, frame 688
Qmotion IncorporatedThe Watt Stopper, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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