Lapsed Oct 21, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 12, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
Filed Mar 3, 2011 as application 13/040,181 · Granted Oct 21, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 21, 2022
2010
2030
Clock starts
Oct 12, 2010
Oct 12, 2010
No longer in force
Oct 21, 2022
Oct 21, 2022
Granted
Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014
Term would have run to
Oct 12, 2030
Oct 12, 2030
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 8,368,995, US 8,559,470, to Oct 12, 2030. 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.
16
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 Oct 12, 2030: 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 Oct 12, 2010, when application 12/903,025, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 3, 2011) | Oct 12, 2030 | 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 8,368,995, US 8,559,470) | resolves to Oct 12, 2030, 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 Oct 21, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 21, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,615,025 | In force no later than Oct 2030 | no later than Oct 2030 |
| US 8,605,766 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 8,867,578 | this patent Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 8,559,470 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,368,995 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,318,868 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 9,324,682 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application 14/488,041 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2011 Reel 26303, frame 233 | Dallesasse, John; Krasulick, Stephen B.; Kozlovsky, William | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2017 Reel 44272, frame 557 | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 22, 2017 Reel 44751, frame 469 | Pacific Western Bank | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,368,995, US 8,559,470, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
58
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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