Lapsed Jun 30, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 12, 2023
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by 180S USA LLC and 180S IP Holdings LLC
Filed Jul 3, 2008 as application 12/168,027 · Granted Jun 30, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1248 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 30, 2023
2003
2027
Clock starts
Aug 12, 2003
Aug 12, 2003
No longer in force
Jun 30, 2023
Jun 30, 2023
Granted
Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015
Term would have run to
Jan 11, 2027
Jan 11, 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
1,248
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
11
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 Jan 11, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 1248 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Aug 12, 2003, when application 10/638,476, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 3, 2008) | Aug 12, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1248 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 11, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 30, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 30, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,650,649 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 7,962,970 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US D545,001 | Term ended Jun 2021 | Jun 2021 |
| US D541,482 | Term ended Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Application PCT/US2004/025787 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,111,781 | Grace period ended Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 9,259,355 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 9,066,829 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2008 Reel 21216, frame 934 | Le Gette, Brian E.; Reeb, David L.; Tipp, Alan S.; Werner, Justin Saul | 180S, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 22, 2010 Reel 25181, frame 18 | 180S, Inc. | Patriarch Partners Agency Services, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Nov 21, 2023 Reel 65657, frame 332 | 180S, LLC; 180S, Inc. | 180S USA LLC; 180S IP Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 21, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | 180S, Inc.; 180S, LLC | 180S USA LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 21, 2023 reel/frame not recorded | 180S, Inc.; 180S, LLC | 180S IP Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1248 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
20
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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