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US 9,715,500 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 25, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Apr 27, 2004 as application 10/833,879 · Granted Jul 25, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1793 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 25, 2025
2004 2029
Clock starts
Apr 27, 2004
No longer in force
Jul 25, 2025
Granted
Jul 25, 2017
Term would have run to
Mar 25, 2029
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
1,793
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
11
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 Mar 25, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1793 days of term 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 Apr 27, 2004, when this application, 10/833,879, was filedApr 27, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1793 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 25, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jul 25, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 25, 2025High confidence

This family

Application 10/776,652Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,161,411In force
Feb 2028
Feb 2028
Application PCT/US2004/012851PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,715,500this patent
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 7,853,893In force
Apr 2028
Apr 2028
US 8,291,320In force
Apr 2027
Apr 2027
Application 11/114,914Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2005/014262PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 11 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 4, 2004
Reel 15865, frame 50
Cue, Eddy; Kondrk, Robert; Gautier, Patrice; Robbin, Jeff; Heller, DavidApple Computer, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 6, 2008
Reel 20617, frame 85
Apple Computer, Inc.Apple Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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

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