Patent family

US 5841978

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 (141)

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
Nov 18, 1993
Projected expiration
Nov 18, 2013expired
Application number
US08/508,083

Parent applications (11)

Family members (6)

Other priority claims (123)

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