Lapsed Oct 25, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 21, 2023
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Google LLC
Filed Nov 19, 2013 as application 14/084,319 · Granted Oct 25, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 303 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Oct 25, 2020
2003
2026
Clock starts
Aug 21, 2003
Aug 21, 2003
No longer in force
Oct 25, 2020
Oct 25, 2020
Granted
Oct 25, 2016
Oct 25, 2016
Term would have run to
Sep 21, 2023
Sep 21, 2023
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
303
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,135,575, US 8,594,994.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
3
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 Sep 21, 2023: its 20-year base term plus 303 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 21, 2003, when application 10/647,053, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 19, 2013) | Aug 21, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +303 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 19, 2024 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,135,575, US 8,594,994) | capped to Sep 21, 2023 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 25, 2020 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 25, 2020 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,135,575 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,594,994 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 9,477,656 | this patent Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2014 Reel 31943, frame 59 | Dean, Jeffrey A. | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 25, 2016 Reel 40473, frame 522 | Dean, Jeffrey Adgate | Google Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Date of Execution for Inventor Jeffrey a. Dean from 8/20/2013 T0 8/20/2003 Previously Recorded on Reel 031943 Frame 0059. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Oct 2, 2017 Reel 44097, frame 658 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Note
The 303 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,135,575, US 8,594,994.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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