Lapsed Dec 20, 2024 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 21, 2034
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 9,281,629), so the cap could be lower.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Aug 8, 2014 as application 14/454,737 · Granted Dec 20, 2016
USPTO first gave this application the number US 9,385,459 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 20, 2024
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014
No longer in force
Dec 20, 2024
Dec 20, 2024
Granted
Dec 20, 2016
Dec 20, 2016
Term would have run to
Jul 21, 2034
Jul 21, 2034
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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 9,281,629, to Jul 21, 2034. 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.
42
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 Jul 21, 2034: 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: Medium. 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 Jul 21, 2014, when application 14/337,180, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 8, 2014) | Jul 21, 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,281,629) | resolves to Jul 21, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 20, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 20, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,318,853 | In force no later than Oct 2034 | no later than Oct 2034 |
| US 9,525,227 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,525,223 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,472,910 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,496,662 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 9,350,126 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| US 9,490,594 | In force no later than Sep 2034 | no later than Sep 2034 |
| US 9,281,629 | In force no later than Jul 2034 | no later than Jul 2034 |
8 of 42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2014 Reel 33491, frame 853 | Little, Terrance F.; Cheng, Chih-pi; Sedio, Stephen; Chang, Chun-yi; Tsao, Pei; Su, Wei-hao | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 29, 2015 Reel 34836, frame 820 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. | Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,281,629, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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