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US 9,844,921 Surrendered on reissue
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Surrendered on reissue Apr 7, 2020 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.

Surrendered on reissue Apr 7, 2020 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE47,927.

Filed Aug 20, 2015 as application 14/831,313 · Granted Dec 19, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Surrendered Apr 7, 2020
2014 2034
Clock starts
Aug 8, 2014
No longer in force
Apr 7, 2020
Granted
Dec 19, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 8, 2034
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
Not on record
Maintenance fees
USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.
7
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. USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events, so no fee is counted as paid or unpaid. Confidence: Medium. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 8, 2014, when application 14/455,461, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 20, 2015)Aug 8, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapseno changeMedium confidence
ReissueUS RE47,927 issued Apr 7, 2020, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)surrendered Apr 7, 2020High confidence
Surrendered on reissueThe steps above, in orderApr 7, 2020Medium confidence

This family

US 8,936,046In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 9,182,057In force
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
US 9,127,791Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
US 9,982,808In force
Nov 2033
Nov 2033
US 9,844,921this patent
Apr 2020
Apr 2020
US RE47,927In force
Aug 2034
Aug 2034
6 of 7 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 9, 2015
Reel 37245, frame 106
Ragner, Gary DeanRagner Technology CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 27, 2023
Reel 65040, frame 754
Ragner Technology Corp.Telebrands Corp.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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