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Device, Method and System for Media Packet Distribution

US 9,185,151 Surrendered on reissue
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Surrendered on reissue Apr 22, 2025 · High confidence

Surrendered on reissue Apr 22, 2025 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE50,398.

Held by Enhanced Data Streaming LLC
Filed Dec 2, 2010 as application 12/738,080 · Granted Nov 10, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 475 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Surrendered Apr 22, 2025
2008 2030
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2008
No longer in force
Apr 22, 2025
Granted
Nov 10, 2015
Term would have run to
Feb 9, 2030
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
475
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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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 filingClock starts Oct 22, 2008, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Dec 2, 2010)Oct 22, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+475 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 9, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidno changeHigh confidence
ReissueUS RE50,398 issued Apr 22, 2025, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)surrendered Apr 22, 2025High confidence
Surrendered on reissueThe steps above, in orderApr 22, 2025High confidence

Sources

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