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Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) and Patent Term Extensions (PTE) for US11611785

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA)

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) compensates for administrative delays by the USPTO during the prosecution of a patent application, adding days to the standard 20-year term from the earliest filing date. Delays that can lead to PTA include the USPTO failing to:

• Issue a first Office Action or Notice of Allowance within 14 months of filing.
• Respond to an applicant's reply or an appeal within four months.
• Act on an application within four months after a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or a federal court.
• Issue a patent within four months after payment of an issue fee.
• Issue a patent within 36 months from the filing date of the application.

Any PTA granted can be reduced if the applicant also caused delays.

As of the current date, specific PTA information for US11611785 is not detailed in the provided Google Patents data or search results beyond the general statement that PTA is a possibility. To determine the exact PTA for US11611785, one would typically need to consult the patent's file wrapper on the USPTO website.

Patent Term Extensions (PTE)

Patent Term Extension (PTE) is available for patents on certain products, such as human drugs, food additives, color additives, medical devices, animal drugs, and veterinary biological products, to restore patent term lost due to pre-market regulatory review by agencies like the FDA. PTE is typically capped at five years and cannot extend the patent term to more than 14 years from the date of marketing approval.

Based on the nature of US11611785, which relates to "Systems and methods for encoding and streaming video," it is highly unlikely to be eligible for PTE, as it does not appear to cover a product requiring regulatory approval under 35 U.S.C. § 156.

Continuation and Divisional Applications

The provided patent text explicitly states that US Patent 11611785 is a continuation of several earlier applications:

• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/789,303, filed Feb. 12, 2020 (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 10,931,982).
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/922,198, filed Mar. 15, 2018 (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 10,645,429).
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/600,046, filed Aug. 30, 2012 (which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 9,955,195).
• U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/529,201, filed Aug. 30, 2011.

This establishes a clear chain of continuation applications. A continuation application is filed while an earlier non-provisional application is still pending and claims priority to that earlier application, covering the same invention.

The patent also indicates a child application:

• US18/185,107, filed 2023-03-16, which is a continuation of US11611785.

Divisional applications arise when a patent examiner determines that a single application contains more than one patentable invention, requiring the applicant to choose one for the original application and allowing the others to be pursued in divisional applications. The provided information does not explicitly state that US11611785 itself is a divisional application, nor does it explicitly mention any divisional applications stemming directly from US11611785. However, since it is a continuation of previous applications, it is part of a larger patent family where divisional applications could exist in other branches of the family tree.

Related Family Members

The patent family for US11611785 includes the following applications, based on the priority chain and related applications mentioned:

• US13/600,046 (filed 2012-08-30, issued as US9955195B2)
• US15/922,198 (filed 2018-03-15, issued as US10645429B2)
• US16/789,303 (filed 2020-02-12, issued as US10931982B2)
• US17/181,996 (this is US11611785, filed 2021-02-22, issued as US11611785B2)
• US18/185,107 (filed 2023-03-16, published as US20230224519A1, and listed as a continuation of US11611785)
• US201161529201P (Provisional application filed 2011-08-30)
• US20210250627A1 (Publication of US17/181,996)

The Google Patents "Family" section also lists foreign counterparts:

• KR101928910B1 (South Korea)
• CN103875248B (China)
• WO2013033458A2 (WIPO publication)

Projected Expiration Date

The general rule for utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, is that the patent term expires 20 years from the earliest filing date of the application from which priority is claimed.

US11611785 claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/529,201, filed on August 30, 2011. Therefore, the statutory 20-year term is calculated from this priority date.

2011-08-30 (Priority Date) + 20 years = 2031-08-30.

The Google Patents record explicitly states an "Anticipated expiration" date of 2032-08-30. This indicates that there has been a Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) of approximately one year (365 days) added to the base 20-year term. This adjustment would compensate for delays in prosecution by the USPTO.