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US 9,432,514 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 30, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 19, 2013 as application 14/083,806 · Granted Aug 30, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 59 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Aug 30, 2020
2007 2027
Clock starts
Feb 2, 2007
No longer in force
Aug 30, 2020
Granted
Aug 30, 2016
Term would have run to
Feb 2, 2027
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
59
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,588,794.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
5
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 2, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 59 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 2, 2007, when application 11/670,824, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 19, 2013)Feb 2, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+59 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 2, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,588,794)capped to Feb 2, 2027High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 30, 2020High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 30, 2020High confidence

This family

US 7,904,061In force
Feb 2029
Feb 2029
US 8,208,908Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
US 8,588,794Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 9,432,514this patent
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
US 10,116,783Grace period ended
Feb 2027
Feb 2027
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
Nov 19, 2013
Reel 31631, frame 451
Zaffino, Richard; Smoak, Andrew T.Cingular Wireless II, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 12, 2015
Reel 37099, frame 647
Cingular Wireless II, LLCAT&T Mobility II, LLCChange of Name
Nov 12, 2015
Reel 37099, frame 750
AT&T Mobility II, LLCAT&T Mobility II LLCChange of Name

Sources

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

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