Lapsed Feb 20, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 8, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Filed Apr 22, 2015 as application 14/693,548 · Granted Feb 20, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 351 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 20, 2026
2006
2027
Clock starts
May 8, 2006
May 8, 2006
No longer in force
Feb 20, 2026
Feb 20, 2026
Granted
Feb 20, 2018
Feb 20, 2018
Term would have run to
Apr 24, 2027
Apr 24, 2027
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
351
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
9
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 Apr 24, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 351 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 8, 2006, when application 11/429,250, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 22, 2015) | May 8, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +351 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 24, 2027 | 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 20, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,795,083 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 9,050,533 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 8,353,773 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,050,536 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 9,839,850 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 9,731,205 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 9,895,614 | this patent Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
| US 9,884,256 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Note
The 351 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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
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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