Patent family

US 5979753

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 (6)

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
Sep 5, 1996
Projected expiration
Sep 5, 2016expired
Application number
US09/153,832

Parent applications (1)

Family members (2)

  • US5825002AOn dossierfiled Sep 5, 1996Expired - Lifetime
  • US6367694B1On dossierfiled Nov 9, 1999Expired - Lifetime

Other priority claims (2)

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