Lapsed Jun 5, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 8, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Whalen LLC
Filed Dec 12, 2011 as application 13/316,792 · Granted Jun 5, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jun 5, 2020
2007
2027
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2007
Aug 8, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 5, 2020
Jun 5, 2020
Granted
Jun 5, 2012
Jun 5, 2012
Term would have run to
Aug 8, 2027
Aug 8, 2027
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 8,079,311, to Aug 8, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
19
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 Aug 8, 2027: 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 8, 2007, when application 11/890,828, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 12, 2011) | Aug 8, 2027 | 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 resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,079,311) | resolves to Aug 8, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 5, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 5, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,530,538 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| Application 11/890,828 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,079,311 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 9,518,695 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| Application 61/472,194 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 8,191,485 | this patent Jun 2020 | Jun 2020 |
| US 8,622,005 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| Application 95/002,164 | Pending not computed | not computed |
8 of 19 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2011 Reel 27367, frame 319 | Whalen, Kenneth; Jones, Paul R. | Whalen Furniture Manufacturing Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 30, 2013 Reel 31891, frame 258 | Whalen Furniture Manufacturing, Inc. | LF Centennial Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 16, 2014 Reel 32072, frame 69 | Whalen Furniture Manufacturing, Inc. | LF Centennial Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the to Remove Incorrect Patent No. D618407 and Add Correct Patent No. D619407 Previously Recorded on Reel 031891 Frame 0258. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Sep 28, 2018 Reel 47162, frame 373 | LF Centennial Ltd. | Whalen LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,079,311, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
48
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.