Lapsed Jan 23, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 16, 2034
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Rally AG LLC
Filed May 4, 2016 as application 15/146,860 · Granted Jan 23, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 23, 2022
2014
2034
Clock starts
May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014
No longer in force
Jan 23, 2022
Jan 23, 2022
Granted
Jan 23, 2018
Jan 23, 2018
Term would have run to
May 16, 2034
May 16, 2034
base term
after the term ends
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 9,348,979, to May 16, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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 16, 2034: 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 16, 2014, when application 14/280,480, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 4, 2016) | May 16, 2034 | 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 9,348,979) | resolves to May 16, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 23, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 23, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,348,979 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,875,490 | this patent Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
| US 10,346,883 | In force no later than May 2034 | no later than May 2034 |
| Application 16/505,575 | Abandoned 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2016 Reel 38485, frame 295 | Roundtree, Brian | Nfluence Media, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2016 Reel 38633, frame 886 | Nfluence Media, Inc. | Autograph, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Sep 20, 2016 Reel 39802, frame 217 | Autograph, Inc. F/K/A Nfluence Media, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank (as Successor in Interest by Merger to Square 1 Bank) | Security Interest |
| Nov 22, 2017 Reel 44201, frame 640 | Pacific Western Bank | Autograph, Inc. F/K/A Nfluence Media, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 30, 2020 Reel 54544, frame 169 | Autograph, Inc. | Rally AG LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,348,979, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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