Lapsed Dec 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 29, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Jul 7, 2016 as application 15/204,246 · Granted Dec 26, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 26, 2025
2015
2035
Clock starts
May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015
No longer in force
Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025
Granted
Dec 26, 2017
Dec 26, 2017
Term would have run to
May 29, 2035
May 29, 2035
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 9,414,298, to May 29, 2035. 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.
4
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 May 29, 2035: 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 May 29, 2015, when application 14/724,873, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 7, 2016) | May 29, 2035 | 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 9,414,298) | resolves to May 29, 2035, 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 Dec 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 26, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,414,298 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,854,510 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 10,356,703 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,779,227 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
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 9,414,298, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.