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Test Case Reduction for Code Regression Testing

US 10,956,308 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 23, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jun 21, 2019 as application 16/449,114 · Granted Mar 23, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 23, 2025
2014 2034
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2014
No longer in force
Mar 23, 2025
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Term would have run to
Mar 14, 2034
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,380,004, to Mar 14, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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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 Mar 14, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: High. from the record

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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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 14, 2014, when application 14/210,627, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 21, 2019)Mar 14, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,380,004)resolves to Mar 14, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 23, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 23, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,380,004In force
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
Application PCT/US2014/030399PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,956,308this patent
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
US 11,422,923In force
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
US 11,947,448In force
no later than Mar 2034
no later than Mar 2034
US 12,711,045In force
Mar 2034
Mar 2034
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

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