Lapsed Feb 18, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 17, 2030
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Motorola Mobility LLC
Filed Feb 22, 2013 as application 13/774,408 · Granted Feb 18, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Feb 18, 2022
2010
2030
Clock starts
Dec 17, 2010
Dec 17, 2010
No longer in force
Feb 18, 2022
Feb 18, 2022
Granted
Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014
Term would have run to
Dec 17, 2030
Dec 17, 2030
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
9
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 17, 2030: its 20-year base term, with no 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 17, 2010, when application 12/971,944, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 22, 2013) | Dec 17, 2030 | 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Feb 18, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 18, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/393,183 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,397,982 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
| US 9,789,986 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,651,368 | this patent Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 10,261,940 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 10,901,941 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| Application 17/005,606 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,630,801 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
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