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Apparatus and Method for Panoramic Video Hosting

US 9,516,225 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 6, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 30, 2012 as application 13/691,654 · Granted Dec 6, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 269 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 6, 2024
2012 2033
Clock starts
Nov 30, 2012
No longer in force
Dec 6, 2024
Granted
Dec 6, 2016
Term would have run to
Aug 26, 2033
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
269
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.
4
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Its term would have run to Aug 26, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 269 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 30, 2012, when this application, 13/691,654, was filedNov 30, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+269 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 26, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 6, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 6, 2024High confidence

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US 9,838,687In force
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US 9,843,840In force
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US 10,349,068Lapsed on the fee record
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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
May 28, 2013
Reel 30493, frame 420
Banta, Bill; Donaldson, GeoffStealth HD Corp.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 17, 2014
Reel 33761, frame 884
Banta, Bill; Donaldson, GeoffStealthhd, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 9, 2015
Reel 34749, frame 590
Stealthhd, Inc.Stealthhd LLCChange of Name
Apr 4, 2016
Reel 38338, frame 297
Stealthhd LLCAmazon Technologies, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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