Lapsed Dec 1, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 7, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Clarion Co., Ltd.
Filed Jun 7, 2012 as application 13/514,578 · Granted Dec 1, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 555 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 1, 2023
2009
2031
Clock starts
Dec 7, 2009
Dec 7, 2009
No longer in force
Dec 1, 2023
Dec 1, 2023
Granted
Dec 1, 2015
Dec 1, 2015
Term would have run to
Jun 15, 2031
Jun 15, 2031
base term
patent term adjustment
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
555
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 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.
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 Jun 15, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 555 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 Dec 7, 2009, when application PCT/JP2009/070489, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 7, 2012) | Dec 7, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +555 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 15, 2031 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 1, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 1, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/501,089 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/514,575 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,204,108 | this patent Dec 2023 | Dec 2023 |
| US 9,118,838 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 9,131,199 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| US 9,286,519 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2024 | Mar 2024 |
| Application 13/932,762 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,224,051 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2012 Reel 28338, frame 531 | Satoh, Noriyuki; Ishii, Katsuichi | Clarion Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 555 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
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.
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