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US 9,741,036 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 22, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Block, Inc.
Filed Jun 30, 2016 as application 15/199,457 · Granted Aug 22, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 22, 2025
2016 2036
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2016
No longer in force
Aug 22, 2025
Granted
Aug 22, 2017
Term would have run to
Jun 30, 2036
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
10
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 Jun 30, 2036: its 20-year base term, with no 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 Jun 30, 2016, when this application, 15/199,457, was filedJun 30, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 22, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 22, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,741,036this patent
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
Application 15/199,596Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 10,453,049In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
US 10,460,395In force
Dec 2037
Dec 2037
Application PCT/US2017/039731PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,102,528In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
US 11,657,448In force
May 2037
May 2037
US 11,605,066In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
8 of 10 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
Apr 27, 2017
Reel 42162, frame 550
Grassadonia, Brian; Omojola, Ayo; Bekmann, JochenSquare, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 1, 2017
Reel 42668, frame 879
Grassadonia, Brian; Omojola, Ayo; Bekmann, JoachimSquare, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Third Inventor's First Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 042162 Frame: 0550. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment .
Dec 29, 2021
Reel 58598, frame 925
Square, Inc.Block, Inc.Change of Name

Sources

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