Patent family

US 6040193

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 (14)

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 22, 1991
Projected expiration
Nov 22, 2011expired
Application number
US09/129,463

Parent applications (2)

Family members (2)

Other priority claims (9)

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