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Multi-Function Docking Assembly for Portable Digital Media Storage and Playback Device

US D545,812 Term ended
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Term ended Jul 3, 2021 · High confidence

Filed Nov 22, 2005 as application 29/243,238 · Granted Jul 3, 2007
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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 14, 2005
Reel 17122, frame 83
Grady, Jeff; Green, Andrew; De Angelis, GareyNetalog, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 14, 2006
Reel 18515, frame 349
Netalog, Inc.Suntrust Bank, As Administrative AgentSecurity Agreement
Feb 1, 2007
Reel 18837, frame 29
Netalog, Inc.Monroe Capital Advisors, LLCSecurity Agreement
May 22, 2007
Reel 19323, frame 565
Monroe Capital Advisors, LLCNetalog, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Jun 25, 2007
Reel 19466, frame 783
Suntrust Bank, As Administrative AgentNetalog, Inc.Release of Security Interest

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