Term ends May 8, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 8, 2034
Held by Western Alliance Bank
Filed Nov 17, 2015 as application 14/944,178 · Granted Jul 19, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014
Term ends
May 8, 2034
May 8, 2034
Granted
Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016
base term
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.
2 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.
25
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 May 8, 2014, when application 14/273,505, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2015) | May 8, 2034 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 8, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,338,605 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,398,421 | this patent May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,268,530 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,872,225 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,477,454 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,271,265 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 11,119,836 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 10,649,825 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
8 of 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2017 Reel 44103, frame 685 | Guba, Robert W; Breaux, Joseph e, III; Kennedy, Chad A | Obdedge, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2018 Reel 45953, frame 552 | Obdedge, LLC | Cellcontrol, Inc. | Simultaneous Entity Conversion, Domicile Change, and Name Change |
| Jun 30, 2020 Reel 53089, frame 1 | Cellcontrol, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 8, 2020 Reel 53718, frame 545 | Cellcontrol, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Nature of Conveyance Needs to Be Switched from Assignment to Security Interest Previously Recorded at Reel: 053089 Frame: 0001. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 14, 2021 Reel 57793, frame 937 | Western Alliance Bank | Cellcontrol, Inc. D/B/A Truce Software, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2034
Term ends May 8, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
68
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.
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