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Methods and Apparatus for Automatically Adding a Media Component to an Established Multimedia Collaboration Session

US 9,565,219 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 7, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Apr 30, 2015 as application 14/700,532 · Granted Feb 7, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 7, 2021
2004 2026
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2004
No longer in force
Feb 7, 2021
Granted
Feb 7, 2017
Term would have run to
Feb 10, 2024
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,775,511, US 9,037,651, to Feb 10, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
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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 10, 2024: 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: 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 10, 2004, when application 10/776,459, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 30, 2015)Feb 10, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,775,511, US 9,037,651)resolves to Feb 10, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 1 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 7, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 7, 2021High confidence

This family

US 8,775,511In force
May 2028
May 2028
US 9,037,651Term ended
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
US 9,565,219this patent
Feb 2021
Feb 2021
US 10,057,075Term ended
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
US 10,778,456Term ended
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
US 11,240,051Term ended
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
US 11,627,008Term ended
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
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
Jul 20, 2021
Reel 56918, frame 473
Vernon, Todd; Jones, DanRaindance Communications, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 20, 2021
Reel 56918, frame 901
Raindance Communications, Inc.Intercall, Inc.Merger
Jul 20, 2021
Reel 56919, frame 384
Intercall, Inc.Open Invention Network LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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