Term ended Oct 20, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 20, 2025
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on May 4, 2026.
Held by Rearden, LLC
Filed Jun 29, 2015 as application 14/754,651 · Granted Mar 27, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Oct 20, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2005
Oct 20, 2005
Term ended
Oct 20, 2025
Oct 20, 2025
Granted
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
4
Family applications on record here
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This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 20, 2005, when application 11/255,854, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 29, 2015) | Oct 20, 2025 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on May 4, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 20, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,659,668 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/039093 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,996,962 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,928,633 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2016 Reel 37445, frame 273 | MO2, LLC | Shenzhenshi Haitiecheng Science and Technology Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 5, 2016 Reel 37732, frame 63 | Shenzhenshi Haitiecheng Science and Technology Co., Ltd. | Virtue Global Holdings Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 12, 2016 Reel 37810, frame 463 | MO2, LLC | Shenzhenshi Haitiecheng Science and Technology Co., Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Doc Date Previously Recorded on Reel 037445 Frame 0273. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignors Interest. |
| Nov 15, 2017 Reel 44768, frame 874 | Cotter, Timothy; Perlman, Stephen G.; Speck, John; Van Der Laan, Roger; Pearce, Kenneth A.; Lasalle, Greg | Rearden, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2019 Reel 48148, frame 337 | Shenzhenshi Haitiecheng Science and Technology Co., Ltd.; Virtue Global Holdings Limited | Rearden Mova, LLC | Court Order |
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later US patents cite this one
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