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Data-Driven Media Management Within an Electronic Device

US 8,111,837 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Feb 7, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Apple Inc.
Filed Apr 18, 2008 as application 12/106,187 · Granted Feb 7, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 964 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Feb 7, 2024
2007 2030
Clock starts
Jun 28, 2007
No longer in force
Feb 7, 2024
Granted
Feb 7, 2012
Term would have run to
Feb 16, 2030
base term patent term adjustment 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
964
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
17
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 Feb 16, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 964 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jun 28, 2007, when applications 11/824,160 and 11/824,320, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 18, 2008)Jun 28, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+964 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 16, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Feb 7, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 7, 2024High confidence

This family

US 7,861,008In force
Dec 2028
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US 8,041,438In force
Jan 2030
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US 8,111,837this patent
Feb 2024
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US 8,171,177In force
Apr 2028
Apr 2028
US 8,140,714Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2024
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US 8,095,694In force
Jun 2027
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US 8,694,141In force
Mar 2028
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US 8,694,140In force
Dec 2027
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8 of 17 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
Apr 23, 2008
Reel 20844, frame 464
Guetta, Anthony J.; Rostaing, AndrewApple Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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