Lapsed Nov 7, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 29, 2033
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Pixim, Inc.
Filed Oct 29, 2015 as application 14/927,129 · Granted Nov 7, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Nov 7, 2025
2013
2033
Clock starts
Aug 29, 2013
Aug 29, 2013
No longer in force
Nov 7, 2025
Nov 7, 2025
Granted
Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 29, 2033
Aug 29, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,077,924, to Aug 29, 2033. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 29, 2033: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Aug 29, 2013, when application 14/014,145, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 29, 2015) | Aug 29, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,077,924) | resolves to Aug 29, 2033, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Nov 7, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 7, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,077,924 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,413,999 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 9,813,652 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,077,924, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
14
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.
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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