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Outdoor Billboard with Lighting Assemblies

US 9,734,737 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 26, 2019 (Partners for Growth V, L.P.).

Lapsed Aug 15, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 23, 2016 as application 15/162,278 · Granted Aug 15, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Aug 15, 2025
2013 2033
Clock starts
Mar 15, 2013
No longer in force
Aug 15, 2025
Granted
Aug 15, 2017
Term would have run to
Mar 15, 2033
base term 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
19
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 9,234,642, US 9,349,307, US 9,514,663, US 9,524,661.
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.
24
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 15, 2033: its 20-year base term plus 19 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 15, 2013, when application 13/836,517, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 23, 2016)Mar 15, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+19 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 3, 2033High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,234,642, US 9,349,307, US 9,514,663, US 9,524,661)capped to Mar 15, 2033High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 15, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 15, 2025High confidence

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US 8,974,077Lapsed on the fee record
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US 8,985,806Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,812,043Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,234,642Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2024
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US 9,212,803Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2023
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US 9,589,488In force
Mar 2033
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US 9,349,307Lapsed on the fee record
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US 9,734,737this patent
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8 of 24 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
May 25, 2016
Reel 38715, frame 823
Auyeung, David SiucheongUltravision Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 25, 2016
Reel 38715, frame 890
Ultravision Holdings, LLCUltravision Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
May 25, 2016
Reel 38716, frame 61
Hall, William Y.; Magarill, SimonUltravision Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 26, 2019
Reel 49011, frame 635
Ultravision Technologies, LLCPartners for Growth V, L.P.Security Interest

Sources

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