Term ends Jun 27, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 27, 2034
Held by Uber Technologies, Inc.
Filed Dec 9, 2014 as application 14/564,358 · Granted Jun 27, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014
Term ends
Jun 27, 2034
Jun 27, 2034
Granted
Jun 27, 2017
Jun 27, 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.
169
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
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jun 27, 2014, when application 14/318,182, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2014) | Jun 27, 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 | Jun 27, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,016,532 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 6,993,754 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2002/035407 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,477,780 | Term ended Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,680,324 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,403,652 | Term ended no later than Oct 2022 | no later than Oct 2022 |
| US 7,565,008 | Term ended no later than Feb 2023 | no later than Feb 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2006/031485 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 169 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2017 Reel 42548, frame 936 | Lord, Richard T.; Lord, Robert W.; Myhrvold, Nathan P.; Tegreene, Clarence T. | Elwha LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 19, 2017 Reel 44441, frame 477 | Elwha LLC | The Invention Science Fund II, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2018 Reel 44604, frame 80 | The Invention Science Fund II, L.L.C. | Modern Geographia, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 8, 2018 Reel 47448, frame 424 | The Invention Science Fund II, L.L.C. | Modern Geographia, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 23, 2019 Reel 49841, frame 19 | Modern Geographia, LLC | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Patent Assignment Agreement |
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What's changing
Jun 2034
Term ends Jun 27, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
163
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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