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US 10,545,938 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 28, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Owen, Katharyn E
Filed Mar 29, 2016 as application 15/025,862 · Granted Jan 28, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 649 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 28, 2024
2013 2035
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2013
No longer in force
Jan 28, 2024
Granted
Jan 28, 2020
Term would have run to
Jul 11, 2035
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
649
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.
3
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 Jul 11, 2035: its 20-year base term plus 649 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 Sep 30, 2013, when application PCT/US2013/062757, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 29, 2016)Sep 30, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+649 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 11, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 28, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 28, 2024High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2013/062757PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,545,938this patent
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
US 11,580,083In force
Oct 2034
Oct 2034
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 30, 2016
Reel 39055, frame 136
Hardas, Manas; Purvis, Lisa; Gardner, James; Bennet, KateMindjet LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 30, 2016
Reel 39055, frame 253
Mindjet LLCMindjet US Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 30, 2016
Reel 39218, frame 865
Mindjet US Inc.Spigit, Inc.Change of Name
Jan 28, 2019
Reel 48152, frame 263
Spigit, Inc.Ares Capital CorporationSecurity Interest
Jan 30, 2020
Reel 51672, frame 245
Ares Capital CorporationSpigit, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Dec 17, 2020
Reel 54962, frame 236
Planview, Inc.; Spigit, Inc.; Troux Technologies, Inc.UBS AG, Stamford BranchFirst Lien Security Agreement
Dec 18, 2020
Reel 54804, frame 543
Planview, Inc.; Spigit, Inc.; Troux Technologies, Inc.UBS AG, Stamford BranchSecond Lien Security Agreement
Dec 23, 2020
Reel 54740, frame 815
Ares Capital CorporationSpigit, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Oct 31, 2023
Reel 65407, frame 524
Spigit, Inc.Owen, Katharyn EAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 2, 2026
Reel 76627, frame 68
Spigit, Inc.Planview, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Dataname: Planview, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 65407 Frame 524. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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