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US 8,396,871 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Mar 12, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jan 26, 2011 as application 13/014,643 · Granted Mar 12, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 127 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 12, 2025
2011 2031
Clock starts
Jan 26, 2011
No longer in force
Mar 12, 2025
Granted
Mar 12, 2013
Term would have run to
Jun 2, 2031
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
127
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.
2
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 Jun 2, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 127 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 Jan 26, 2011, when this application, 13/014,643, was filedJan 26, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+127 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 2, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Mar 12, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 12, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,396,871this patent
Mar 2025
Mar 2025
US 9,703,863In force (reinstated)
Jun 2031
Jun 2031
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 28, 2011
Reel 25872, frame 279
Barsony, Stephen John; Messing, Yerachmiel Tzvi; Shub, David Matthew; Wagner Jr., James KennethDiscoverready LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 20, 2014
Reel 34222, frame 146
Discoverready LLCBayside Capital, Inc.Security Interest
Jun 25, 2018
Reel 46191, frame 124
Bayside Capital, Inc.Discoverready LLCRelease of Security Interest
Oct 25, 2018
Reel 47311, frame 298
Discoverready LLCJefferies Finance LLCSecurity Interest
May 20, 2021
Reel 56302, frame 772
Jefferies Finance LLC (Releasing Reel/Frame 47311/0193)Discoverready LLCRelease of Security Interest
May 20, 2021
Reel 56302, frame 799
Jefferies Finance LLC (Releasing Reel/Frame 47311/0298)Discoverready LLCRelease of Security Interest
Feb 23, 2022
Reel 59080, frame 227
Discoverready LLCConsilio, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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