Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 1, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ends Mar 11, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 24, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Filed Oct 24, 2014 as application 14/523,092 · Granted Oct 17, 2017
Base term plus 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014
Term ends
Mar 11, 2035
Mar 11, 2035
Granted
Oct 17, 2017
Oct 17, 2017
base term
patent term adjustment
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
138
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
13
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 138 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Oct 24, 2014, when this application, 14/523,092, was filed; a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 24, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +138 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 11, 2035 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 11, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,025,875 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| Application 14/522,884 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,635,737 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,540,418 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,875,318 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 9,965,568 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 9,934,322 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 9,792,386 | this patent Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2015 Reel 35331, frame 285 | Wellen, Alex; Gallagher, Marisa; Loheide, Don; Wise, Michael; Persaud, Rajin; Koetter, Michael; Estenson, Kc; Ehlers, Dave; Hinton, Chris; Quigley, Michael; Legg, Jeremy; Teissler, Scott | Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 1, 2025 Reel 72995, frame 858 | Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.; Warner Media, LLC; Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; Home Box Office, Inc.; Discovery Communications, LLC; Warnermedia Direct LLC; Discovery.com LLC; Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.; CNN Interactive Group, Inc. | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Mar 2035
Term ends Mar 11, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 138 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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