Selective Indication of a Bonus at a Gaming Device with Player Input

US 6,910,964 Term ended

Overview Sources & methods

Term ended no later than Oct 12, 2014 · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Held by IGT

Filed Feb 12, 2003 as application 10/366,036 · Granted Jun 28, 2005

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Ended no later than Oct 12, 2014

1994 2026

Clock starts
Oct 12, 1994

Ended no later than
Oct 12, 2014

Granted
Jun 28, 2005

base term after the term ends 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

2 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 Oct 12, 1994, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 12, 2003)	Oct 12, 2014	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	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	no later than Oct 12, 2014	From the USPTO record

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Selective Indication of a Bonus at a Gaming Device with Player Input

Term ended no later than Oct 12, 2014 · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Oct 12, 2014

How we calculated this date

Sources