Lapsed Feb 28, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 18, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by AT&T Mobility II LLC
Filed Dec 12, 2014 as application 14/568,876 · Granted Feb 28, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 73 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 28, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Aug 18, 2006
Aug 18, 2006
No longer in force
Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025
Granted
Feb 28, 2017
Feb 28, 2017
Term would have run to
Oct 30, 2026
Oct 30, 2026
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
73
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,340,711, to Oct 30, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
6
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 Oct 30, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 73 days of term 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 18, 2006, when application 11/465,728, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 12, 2014) | Aug 18, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +73 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 30, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,340,711) | resolves to Oct 30, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 28, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,340,711 | In force Feb 2030 | Feb 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2007/018384 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,954,069 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 9,585,116 | this patent Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 10,278,026 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 10,708,731 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2024 | Jul 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2014 Reel 34497, frame 94 | Glass, David; Abu-dayya, Adnan | AT&T Mobility II LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 10, 2017 Reel 41328, frame 265 | Cingular Wireless II, LLC | AT&T Mobility II, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jan 10, 2017 Reel 41328, frame 270 | AT&T Mobility II, LLC | AT&T Mobility II LLC | Change of Name |
| Jan 10, 2017 Reel 41328, frame 274 | Glass, David; Abu-dayya, Adnan | Cingular Wireless II, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Previously Recorded on Reel 034497 Frame 0094. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Assignee as Cingular Wireless II, LLC. |
Sources
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Note
The 73 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,340,711, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
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