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Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Processing a Non-Returnable Command Response Based on a Markup Element

US 8,577,958 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 5, 2017 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 28, 2010 as application 12/789,550 · Granted Nov 5, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 573 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 5, 2017
2010 2031
Clock starts
May 28, 2010
No longer in force
Nov 5, 2017
Granted
Nov 5, 2013
Term would have run to
Dec 22, 2031
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
573
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
25
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 22, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 573 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 May 28, 2010, when this application, 12/789,550, was filedMay 28, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+573 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 22, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 5, 2017High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 5, 2017High confidence

This family

US 8,219,606Lapsed on the fee record
Jul 2016
Jul 2016
US 8,577,958this patent
Nov 2017
Nov 2017
US 8,745,418Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2018
Jun 2018
Application 13/477,402Abandoned
not computed
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Application 13/941,502Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 14/294,059Abandoned
not computed
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Application 14/667,642Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 9,923,996In force
Feb 2030
Feb 2030
8 of 25 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
Nov 3, 2013
Reel 31558, frame 901
Morris, Robert PaulSitting Man, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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