Lapsed Mar 15, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Brunoco, Inc.

Filed Apr 3, 2015 as application 14/678,316 · Granted Mar 15, 2016

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Mar 15, 2024

2015 2035

Clock starts
Mar 26, 2015

No longer in force
Mar 15, 2024

Granted
Mar 15, 2016

Term would have run to
Mar 26, 2035

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.

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 26, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Mar 26, 2015, when application 14/669,395, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 3, 2015)	Mar 26, 2035	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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 Mar 15, 2024	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 15, 2024	High confidence

This family

US 9,600,594	Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025	Mar 2025
US 9,285,977	this patent Mar 2024	Mar 2024
US 9,412,208	Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024	Aug 2024
US 12,032,897	In force Mar 2035	Mar 2035
Application 15/175,984	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 15/226,029	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 18/767,856	Pending not computed	not computed

7 of 10 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
Apr 3, 2015 Reel 35332, frame 422	Greenberg, Eric H.; McFarland, Ian; Garris, John M.; Rolston, Mark E.; Ficklin, Jared L.; Santone, Matthew J.; Stevens, Jon	Wrap Media, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 7, 2018 Reel 45514, frame 187	Wrap Media, LLC	Brunoco, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 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.

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