Lapsed Mar 11, 2018 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 27, 2027
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by LMK Technologies, LLC
Filed Dec 14, 2012 as application 13/714,490 · Granted Mar 11, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Mar 11, 2018
2007
2027
Clock starts
Aug 27, 2007
Aug 27, 2007
No longer in force
Mar 11, 2018
Mar 11, 2018
Granted
Mar 11, 2014
Mar 11, 2014
Term would have run to
Aug 27, 2027
Aug 27, 2027
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,975,726, US 8,667,991, to Aug 27, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
11
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 27, 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 27, 2007, when application 11/845,134, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 14, 2012) | Aug 27, 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 7,975,726, US 8,667,991) | resolves to Aug 27, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 11, 2018 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 11, 2018 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,975,726 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2008/074001 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,667,991 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,678,037 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 8,667,992 | this patent Mar 2018 | Mar 2018 |
| US 9,366,375 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 8,689,835 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 10,458,591 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,975,726, US 8,667,991, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 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
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