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US 7,924,996 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 12, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 26, 2010 as application 12/713,254 · Granted Apr 12, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Apr 12, 2023
2003 2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2003
No longer in force
Apr 12, 2023
Granted
Apr 12, 2011
Term would have run to
Dec 30, 2023
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,672,439, to Dec 30, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
10
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 Dec 30, 2023: 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

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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 30, 2003, when application 10/747,699, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 26, 2010)Dec 30, 2023High 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 7,672,439)resolves to Dec 30, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 12, 2023High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 12, 2023High confidence

This family

US 7,644,166In force
Dec 2026
Dec 2026
US 7,672,439In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
Application PCT/US2004/006334PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 7,693,944In force
Jul 2028
Jul 2028
US 8,565,397Term ended
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
US 7,924,996this patent
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
US 7,987,236Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2023
Jul 2023
US 8,577,977Term ended
Dec 2023
Dec 2023
8 of 10 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 26, 2010
Reel 23996, frame 248
Appelman, Barry; Murphy, Stephen VaughanAmerica Online, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 26, 2010
Reel 23996, frame 287
AOL LLCAOL Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 26, 2010
Reel 23996, frame 544
America Online, Inc.AOL LLCChange of Name
Aug 2, 2013
Reel 30936, frame 11
AOL Inc.; AOL Advertising Inc.; Buysight, Inc.; Mapquest, Inc.; Pictela, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative AgentSecurity Agreement
Jul 1, 2015
Reel 36042, frame 53
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.AOL Advertising Inc.; AOL Inc.; Buysight, Inc.; Mapquest, Inc.; Pictela, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.AOL Advertising Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.AOL Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Buysight, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Mapquest, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Jul 1, 2015
reel/frame not recorded
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Pictela, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patent Rights -Release of 030936/0011
Aug 24, 2017
Reel 43672, frame 369
AOL Inc.Oath Inc.Change of Name
Oct 26, 2020
Reel 54258, frame 635
Oath Inc.Verizon Media Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 19, 2021
Reel 57453, frame 431
Verizon Media Inc.Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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