Lapsed Aug 9, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 29, 2032
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Multi-Flex Circuits Pty., Ltd.
Filed Nov 10, 2014 as application 14/537,178 · Granted Aug 9, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 9, 2024
2012
2032
Clock starts
Feb 29, 2012
Feb 29, 2012
No longer in force
Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024
Granted
Aug 9, 2016
Aug 9, 2016
Term would have run to
Feb 29, 2032
Feb 29, 2032
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,885,586, to Feb 29, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 Feb 29, 2032: 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 Feb 29, 2012, when application 13/408,464, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 10, 2014) | Feb 29, 2032 | 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 8,885,586) | resolves to Feb 29, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,885,586 | Grace period ended Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,414,342 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| Application 15/231,098 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/653,937 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/906,216 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/171,993 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/444,814 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/773,362 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 2019 Reel 47936, frame 105 | Blackbird Technology Holdings, Inc., Now Known as Haystack Technologies, Inc. | Multi-Flex Circuits Pty Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Oct 28, 2019 Reel 50848, frame 126 | Blackbird Technology Holdings, Inc. | McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Feb 14, 2020 Reel 51936, frame 269 | Blackbird Technology Holdings, Inc., Now Known as Haystack Technologies, Inc. | Multi-Flex Circuits Pty Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Apr 2, 2020 Reel 52311, frame 240 | Blackbird Technology Holdings, Inc., Now Known as Haystack Technologies, Inc. | Multi-Flex Circuits Pty., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,885,586, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
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
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