Term ends Feb 19, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 19, 2029
Held by Activision Publishing, Inc.
Filed Oct 7, 2013 as application 14/047,590 · Granted Feb 28, 2017
Base term plus 636 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Feb 19, 2009
Feb 19, 2009
Term ends
Feb 19, 2029
Feb 19, 2029
Granted
Feb 28, 2017
Feb 28, 2017
base term
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
636
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,156,184, US 8,554,841.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 636 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 19, 2009, when application 12/389,073, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 7, 2013) | Feb 19, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +636 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 17, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,156,184, US 8,554,841) | capped to Feb 19, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 19, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,156,184 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 8,554,841 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 9,583,109 | this patent Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 10,001,970 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2014 Reel 32240, frame 257 | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Sep 20, 2016 Reel 39804, frame 23 | Kurata, Gakuto; Nagano, Tohru; Tatsubori, Michiaki | International Business Machines Corporation | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Sep 20, 2016 Reel 39804, frame 125 | International Business Machines Corporation | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Oct 17, 2016 Reel 40381, frame 487 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Blizzard Inc.; Activision Publishing, Inc.; Activision Entertainment Holdings, Inc.; Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Blizzard Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Publishing, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Activision Entertainment Holdings, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 17, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | Bank Of America, N.a. | Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2029
Term ends Feb 19, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 636 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,156,184, US 8,554,841.
Citations
132
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.