Lapsed Sep 19, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 17, 2028
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by PPC Broadband, Inc.
Filed May 3, 2016 as application 15/145,355 · Granted Sep 19, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 19, 2025
2008
2028
Clock starts
Jul 17, 2008
Jul 17, 2008
No longer in force
Sep 19, 2025
Sep 19, 2025
Granted
Sep 19, 2017
Sep 19, 2017
Term would have run to
Jul 17, 2028
Jul 17, 2028
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,363,469, to Jul 17, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows 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 Jul 17, 2028: 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 Jul 17, 2008, when application 12/175,366, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 3, 2016) | Jul 17, 2028 | 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 9,363,469) | resolves to Jul 17, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 19, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 19, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,363,469 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,769,418 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 10,257,462 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2023 | Apr 2023 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47832, frame 695 | Wells, Chad T. | Evolution Broadband, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47833, frame 269 | Evolution Broadband LLC | John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47971, frame 17 | John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc. | MR Advisers Limited | Change of Name |
| Dec 20, 2018 Reel 47970, frame 992 | MR Advisers Limited | PPC Broadband, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,363,469, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
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