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Webtop and monetization engine, system and method

US 9,501,750 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 22, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Mattel, Inc.
Filed Mar 24, 2009 as application 12/383,456 · Granted Nov 22, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 714 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 22, 2024
2009 2031
Clock starts
Mar 24, 2009
No longer in force
Nov 22, 2024
Granted
Nov 22, 2016
Term would have run to
Mar 8, 2031
base term patent term adjustment 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
714
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
105
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 8, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 714 days of term 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 24, 2009, when this application, 12/383,456, was filedMar 24, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+714 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 8, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 22, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 22, 2024High confidence

This family

Application 12/381,666Abandoned
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Application 12/381,663Abandoned
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US 8,463,764Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2021
Jun 2021
Application 12/383,001Abandoned
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US 9,501,750this patent
Nov 2024
Nov 2024
Application 61/216,717Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 61/216,718Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 12/459,171Abandoned
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8 of 105 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 7, 2012
Reel 28338, frame 621
Fujioka, RobbFuhu Holdings, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 28, 2015
Reel 35775, frame 173
Fuhu, Inc.Obsidian Agency Services, Inc.Security Interest
Feb 25, 2016
Reel 37917, frame 16
Fuhu Holdings, Inc.Mattel, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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