Term ends Apr 8, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 27, 2034
Held by Gemini IP, LLC
Filed Aug 4, 2015 as application 14/818,148 · Granted Jul 16, 2019
Base term plus 1016 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2037
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014
Term ends
Apr 8, 2037
Apr 8, 2037
Granted
Jul 16, 2019
Jul 16, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,016
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 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.
58
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 1016 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Jun 27, 2014, when application 14/318,456, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 4, 2015) | Jun 27, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1016 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 8, 2037 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 8, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,898,782 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 9,892,460 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 10,068,228 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,269,009 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| Application 29/518,242 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 29/518,241 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 29/518,239 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,354,325 | this patent Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
8 of 58 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2016 Reel 37994, frame 262 | Skala, Marcus; Winer, Eric; Winklevoss, Cameron Howard; Winklevoss, Tyler Howard | Winklevoss IP, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 22, 2021 Reel 58223, frame 470 | Winklevoss IP, LLC | Gemini IP, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2037
Term ends Apr 8, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1016 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
118
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2019 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.