Lapsed May 31, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 23, 2028
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by JHB Holdings LLC
Filed Apr 28, 2015 as application 14/698,801 · Granted May 31, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed May 31, 2020
2008
2028
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2008
Dec 23, 2008
No longer in force
May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020
Granted
May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016
Term would have run to
Dec 23, 2028
Dec 23, 2028
base term
after the term ends
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,700,072, US 9,049,163, to Dec 23, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
6
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 Dec 23, 2028: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 23, 2008, when application 12/342,838, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 28, 2015) | Dec 23, 2028 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,700,072, US 9,049,163) | resolves to Dec 23, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 31, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 31, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,700,072 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 9,049,163 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 9,356,900 | this patent May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 10,257,148 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| Application 16/356,202 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,999,233 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
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 28, 2015 Reel 35520, frame 495 | Pascal, Kristin Marie; Klonsky, Andrew Evan; Bailey, Matthew James | AT&T Mobility II LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 21, 2017 Reel 42445, frame 717 | AT&T Mobility II LLC | Textsoft LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 16, 2018 Reel 44956, frame 221 | Textsoft LLC | Smith Tempel Blaha LLC | Lien |
| Feb 23, 2018 Reel 45014, frame 573 | Textsoft, LLC | Prepaid Text, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2018 Reel 45322, frame 303 | Prepaid Text, LLC | Nim Sar | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 18, 2018 Reel 47089, frame 133 | Textsoft, Inc.; Demattei, Mark; Textsoft LLC | Topping, Dana | Lien |
| May 11, 2018 Reel 46128, frame 96 | Smith Tempel Blaha LLC | Textsoft LLC | Release of Lien |
| Jun 26, 2018 Reel 46298, frame 114 | Prepaid Text, LLC | RCS IP, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name and Address Previously Recorded on Reel 045322 Frame 0303. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the New Assignment Conveying Party Prepaid Text, LLC. |
| Mar 29, 2026 Reel 74216, frame 783 | RCS IP LLC; TCB Encore LLC; De Mattei, Mark Anthony | JHB Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 23, 2026 Reel 76122, frame 159 | RCS IP LLC; De Mattei, Mark Anthony | JHB Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,700,072, US 9,049,163, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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.