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US 9,743,679 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 29, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

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Filed Sep 1, 2016 as application 15/254,263 · Granted Aug 29, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 29, 2025
2016 2036
Clock starts
May 20, 2016
No longer in force
Aug 29, 2025
Granted
Aug 29, 2017
Term would have run to
May 20, 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.
7
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to May 20, 2036: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 20, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/033617, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 1, 2016)May 20, 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 29, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 29, 2025High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2016/033617PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,743,679this patent
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
US 10,517,310In force
Aug 2036
Aug 2036
US 11,160,287Lapsed on the fee record
Nov 2025
Nov 2025
US 10,959,442In force
May 2036
May 2036
US 11,812,758In force
May 2036
May 2036
Application 18/481,776Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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 3, 2017
Reel 42224, frame 814
Perez, Louis; Rogers, James; Bakus, Ronald C., II; Holland, Chance; Du, JennyApeel Technology, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 1, 2022
Reel 60562, frame 503
Apeel Technology, Inc.SLR Investment Corp., as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Dec 15, 2023
Reel 66045, frame 1
SLR Investment Corp., as AgentApeel Technology, Inc.Termination and Release of Intellectual Property Security Agreement at Reel/Frame No. 60562/0503

Sources

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