Patent family

US 6053856

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 (16)

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
Apr 18, 1995
Projected expiration
Apr 18, 2015expired
Application number
US08/853,374

Parent applications (2)

Other priority claims (13)

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