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Billboard with Light Assembly for Substantially Uniform Illumination

US 9,234,642 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 17, 2017 (Partners for Growth V, L.P.).

Lapsed Jan 12, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Mar 2, 2015 as application 14/635,907 · Granted Jan 12, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 12, 2024
2013 2033
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2013
No longer in force
Jan 12, 2024
Granted
Jan 12, 2016
Term would have run to
Mar 15, 2033
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
24
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 Mar 15, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 15, 2013, when application 13/836,517, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 2, 2015)Mar 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 12, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 12, 2024High confidence

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US 9,234,642this patent
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US 9,212,803Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,589,488In force
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8 of 24 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 18, 2016
Reel 38029, frame 125
Auyeung, David SiucheongUltravision Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 18, 2016
Reel 38032, frame 846
Ultravision Holdings, LLCUltravision Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 7, 2016
Reel 38222, frame 605
Hall, William Y.Ultravision Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 7, 2016
Reel 38222, frame 693
Magarill, SimonUltravision Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 17, 2017
Reel 44166, frame 233
Ultravision Technologies, LLCPartners for Growth V, L.P.Security Interest
Jan 4, 2021
Reel 54887, frame 804
Partners for Growth V, L.P.Longford Capital Fund II, LPAssignment of Security Interest in Patent Collateral
Mar 25, 2021
Reel 56583, frame 944
Ultravision Technologies, LLCPartners for Growth V, L.P.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent No. 8840413 Previously Recorded at Reel: 044166 Frame: 0233. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest .

Sources

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