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Transmission Device with Mode Division Multiplexing and Methods for Use Therewith

US 9,544,006 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 10, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 20, 2014 as application 14/548,411 · Granted Jan 10, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 78 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 10, 2025
2014 2035
Clock starts
Nov 20, 2014
No longer in force
Jan 10, 2025
Granted
Jan 10, 2017
Term would have run to
Feb 6, 2035
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
78
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.
41
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Feb 6, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 78 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 20, 2014, when this application, 14/548,411, was filedNov 20, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+78 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 6, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 10, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 10, 2025High confidence

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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
Nov 21, 2014
Reel 34226, frame 838
Henry, Paul Shala; Bennett, Robert; Gerszberg, Irwin; Barzegar, Farhad; Barnickel, Donald J; Willis, Thomas M., IIIAT&T Intellectual Property I, LPAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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