Patent family

US 5716978

Continuation, divisional, and parent applications sharing a priority claim with this patent. Most asserted patents are continuations — the sibling list is the assertion surface a defendant has to plan against. Sourced from Google Patents, cached for 30 days.

Patent family (8)

Continuations, divisionals, and parent applications sharing a priority claim with this patent. Most asserted patents are continuations — siblings expand the assertion surface a defendant has to plan against.

Earliest priority
Dec 4, 1990
Projected expiration
Dec 4, 2010expired
Application number
US08/454,545

Parent applications (2)

Family members (2)

Other priority claims (3)

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