Also listed on Square, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 13, 2030 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 13, 2030
Grace period ended Oct 28, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Held by Block, Inc.
Filed Mar 8, 2011 as application 13/043,258 · Granted Oct 28, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2010
Oct 13, 2010
Term ends
Oct 13, 2030
Oct 13, 2030
Granted
Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014
base term
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 8,302,860, to Oct 13, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
98
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term is 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. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its third maintenance fee ended Oct 28, 2026 with no payment on record. 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 13, 2010, when applications 12/903,753, 12/903,758, 12/903,801, 12/903,823 and 12/903,828, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Mar 8, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 13, 2030 | 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 8,302,860) | resolves to Oct 13, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"; the grace period ended with no payment on record in the fee file | grace period ended Oct 28, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 13, 2030 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,376,431 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,684,809 | Term ended Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| US 7,914,994 | Term ended Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| Application 12/707,228 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,177,407 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 8,534,546 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application 12/903,753 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,584,956 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2021 | Nov 2021 |
8 of 98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2011 Reel 26177, frame 43 | McKelvey, Jim | Square, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2015 Reel 37055, frame 715 | Square, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Aug 11, 2017 Reel 43532, frame 662 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Square, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 18, 2022 Reel 58753, frame 503 | Square, Inc. | Block, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 28
Grace period ended Oct 28, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
Oct 2030
Term ends Oct 13, 2030.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,302,860, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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