Term ends Dec 23, 2028 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,722,040), so the cap could be lower.

Held by Liveleaf Holdings LLC.

Filed Mar 21, 2014 as application 14/221,500 · Granted May 2, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Dec 23, 2028

2008 2028

Clock starts
Dec 23, 2008

Term ends
Dec 23, 2028

Granted
May 2, 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,343,552, US 8,586,110, US 8,716,351, US 8,716,352, US 8,716,353, US 8,722,040, US 8,722,116, US 8,734,867, US 8,765,818, US 8,772,350, US 8,772,351, US 8,772,352, US 8,790,640, US 8,809,399, US 8,822,544, US 8,822,545, US 8,946,304, US 8,952,072, US 9,023,895, US 9,089,596, US 9,192,635, US 9,408,869, US 9,603,871, US 9,603,883, to Dec 23, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 is 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. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Dec 23, 2008, when application 12/317,638, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 21, 2014)	Dec 23, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,343,552, US 8,586,110, US 8,716,351, US 8,716,352, US 8,716,353, US 8,722,040, US 8,722,116, US 8,734,867, US 8,765,818, US 8,772,350, US 8,772,351, US 8,772,352, US 8,790,640, US 8,809,399, US 8,822,544, US 8,822,545, US 8,946,304, US 8,952,072, US 9,023,895, US 9,089,596, US 9,192,635, US 9,408,869, US 9,603,871, US 9,603,883)	resolves to Dec 23, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium 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	Dec 23, 2028	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,734,867	In force Dec 2028	Dec 2028
US 8,343,552	In force Nov 2029	Nov 2029
US 8,722,116	Lapsed on the fee record May 2022	May 2022
US 8,586,110	In force Dec 2028	Dec 2028
Application 14/027,228	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 14/027,235	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 14/178,459	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 9,636,361	this patent Dec 2028	Dec 2028

8 of 14 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.

Recorded	Assignor	Assignee	Conveyance
Oct 20, 2022 Reel 61733, frame 245	Liveleaf, Inc.	Liveleaf, Inc.	Change of Address
Oct 24, 2022 Reel 61506, frame 296	Liveleaf, Inc.	Liveleaf Holdings LLC.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Dec 2028

Term ends Dec 23, 2028. No further fees fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,343,552, US 8,586,110, US 8,716,351, US 8,716,352, US 8,716,353, US 8,722,040, US 8,722,116, US 8,734,867, US 8,765,818, US 8,772,350, US 8,772,351, US 8,772,352, US 8,790,640, US 8,809,399, US 8,822,544, US 8,822,545, US 8,946,304, US 8,952,072, US 9,023,895, US 9,089,596, US 9,192,635, US 9,408,869, US 9,603,871, US 9,603,883, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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