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US 9,898,756 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Feb 20, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Rally AG LLC
Filed Jun 6, 2012 as application 13/490,447 · Granted Feb 20, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 50 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 20, 2022
2012 2032
Clock starts
Jun 6, 2012
No longer in force
Feb 20, 2022
Granted
Feb 20, 2018
Term would have run to
Jul 26, 2032
base term patent term adjustment 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
50
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
2
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to Jul 26, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 50 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 6, 2012, when this application, 13/490,447, was filedJun 6, 2032High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+50 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 26, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 20, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 20, 2022High confidence

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US 9,898,756this patent
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
US 10,482,501In force
no later than Jun 2032
no later than Jun 2032
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 26, 2013
Reel 30692, frame 562
Allan, Kevin; Huseby, Thomas S.; Munslow, William; Pratt, David; Roundtree, BrianNfluence Media, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 9, 2013
Reel 30995, frame 737
Nfluence Media, Inc.Square 1 BankSecurity Agreement
Sep 19, 2014
Reel 33782, frame 665
Nfluence Media, Inc.Autograph, Inc.Change of Name
Nov 22, 2017
Reel 44201, frame 640
Pacific Western BankAutograph, Inc. F/K/A Nfluence Media, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Nov 30, 2020
Reel 54544, frame 169
Autograph, Inc.Rally AG LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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