Term ends Jan 13, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 13, 2032
Held by Planetart, LLC
Filed Dec 18, 2013 as application 14/133,030 · Granted Oct 13, 2015
Base term plus 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jan 13, 2012
Jan 13, 2012
Term ends
Jan 13, 2032
Jan 13, 2032
Granted
Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015
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
20
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,613,639, US 8,944,876, US 9,072,979.
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.
4
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 runs 20 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jan 13, 2012, when application 13/350,144, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 18, 2013) | Jan 13, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +20 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 2, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,613,639, US 8,944,876, US 9,072,979) | capped to Jan 13, 2032 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 13, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,613,639 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
| US 9,072,979 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 9,155,973 | this patent Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 8,944,876 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
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 17, 2014 Reel 32696, frame 581 | Hengel, Charles M.; Stave, Bryan; Brown, Art | Marketing Architects | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2014 Reel 32696, frame 598 | Marketing Architects | Mart 5 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2014 Reel 32709, frame 803 | Mart 5 LLC | Martfive LLC | Change of Name |
| May 29, 2014 Reel 33053, frame 969 | Martfive LLC | Zoomworks LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 7, 2015 Reel 35386, frame 309 | Zoomworks LLC | Hurrycane LLC | Change of Name |
| Apr 29, 2015 Reel 35524, frame 162 | Hurrycane LLC | Zoomworks LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 20, 2021 Reel 55976, frame 430 | Zoomworks LLC | Planetart, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 3, 2024 Reel 66988, frame 768 | Planetart, LLC | Aether Financial Services, As Security Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 2, 2025 Reel 71801, frame 212 | Aether Financial Services, As Security Agent | Planetart, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2032
Term ends Jan 13, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,613,639, US 8,944,876, US 9,072,979.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2015 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.