Lapsed Aug 15, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 16, 2033
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Google LLC
Filed Jun 2, 2015 as application 14/649,019 · Granted Aug 15, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 252 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 15, 2025
2013
2034
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013
No longer in force
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025
Granted
Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 25, 2034
Aug 25, 2034
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
252
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 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.
3
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 Aug 25, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 252 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 16, 2013, when application PCT/JP2013/083571, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 2, 2015) | Dec 16, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +252 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 25, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 15, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 15, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,733,137 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 10,132,701 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2016 Reel 39395, frame 278 | Urata, Junichi | Schaft Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 5, 2017 Reel 44695, frame 115 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 252 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
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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