Term ends Oct 2, 2034 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Snap Inc.

Filed Oct 2, 2014 as application 14/505,478 · Granted Jan 3, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Oct 2, 2034

2014 2034

Clock starts
Oct 2, 2014

Term ends
Oct 2, 2034

Granted
Jan 3, 2017

base term 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.

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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 2, 2014, when this application, 14/505,478, was filed	Oct 2, 2034	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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 2, 2034	High confidence

This family

US 9,537,811	this patent Oct 2034	Oct 2034
US 10,284,508	In force Oct 2034	Oct 2034
US 9,396,354	In force Oct 2034	Oct 2034
Application PCT/US2015/053811	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,785,796	In force Oct 2034	Oct 2034
US 10,958,608	In force Oct 2034	Oct 2034
US 10,708,210	In force Oct 2034	Oct 2034
US 11,012,398	In force Oct 2034	Oct 2034

8 of 24 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.

Recorded	Assignor	Assignee	Conveyance
Oct 2, 2014 Reel 33877, frame 309	Allen, Nicholas; Giovannini, Donald; Lin, Chia-yi; Murphy, Robert; Spiegel, Evan	Snapchat, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 28, 2016 Reel 40423, frame 926	Snapchat, Inc.	Snap Inc.	Change of Name

Sources

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

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What's changing

Oct 2034

Term ends Oct 2, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

1,286

later US patents cite this one

That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2017 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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