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Term, Application History, and Family for U.S. Patent 10,778,989

An analysis of the records for U.S. Patent 10,778,989 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides the following details regarding its term, related applications, and patent family.

Patent Term and Expiration

• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): There is no record of any Patent Term Adjustment granted to this patent. PTA is used to extend a patent's term to compensate for certain delays caused by the USPTO during prosecution. The absence of PTA indicates that no such qualifying delays were recorded.

• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There is no record of any Patent Term Extension for this patent. PTE is typically granted to compensate for regulatory review delays (e.g., by the FDA) and does not apply to this technology.

• Projected Expiration Date: The term of a U.S. patent filed after June 8, 1995, is twenty years from the earliest non-provisional application filing date. U.S. Patent 10,778,989 was filed on February 5, 2016, and does not claim priority to any earlier non-provisional applications. Therefore, the projected expiration date is February 5, 2036. This date is based on the standard 20-year term and assumes all required maintenance fees are paid on time.

Application and Family History

• Continuation or Divisional Applications: A review of the patent's continuity data shows that U.S. Patent 10,778,898 is not a continuation or divisional of any prior U.S. application, nor have any continuation or divisional applications been filed claiming priority to it.

• Patent Family Members: This U.S. patent is part of a small international patent family, indicating that protection for this invention was sought in other jurisdictions. The known family members that claim priority to the original U.S. application (15/016,887) are:

  • European Patent Application: EP3209019A1
  • European Patent Application: EP4618536A1

These applications indicate an effort to protect the "Rolling intra prediction for image and video coding" invention within the member states of the European Patent Organisation.