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Authorization of Cardless Payment Transactions

US 9,576,289 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 21, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Block, Inc.
Filed Sep 4, 2013 as application 14/017,940 · Granted Feb 21, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 21, 2025
2012 2032
Clock starts
Nov 21, 2012
No longer in force
Feb 21, 2025
Granted
Feb 21, 2017
Term would have run to
Nov 21, 2032
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
10
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 Nov 21, 2032: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Nov 21, 2012, when application 13/683,841, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 4, 2013)Nov 21, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 21, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 21, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,185,958In force
Nov 2032
Nov 2032
US 9,589,269In force
Dec 2033
Dec 2033
US 9,633,352Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
US 9,576,289this patent
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
US 9,799,034In force
Nov 2032
Nov 2032
US 10,592,903In force
Nov 2032
Nov 2032
US 11,238,451In force
Jan 2033
Jan 2033
US 11,854,010In force
Dec 2032
Dec 2032
8 of 10 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
Oct 16, 2013
Reel 31416, frame 545
Henderson, William; Dorsey, Jack; Grassadonia, Brian; Wilson, MatthewSquare, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 18, 2022
Reel 58753, frame 503
Square, Inc.Block, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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