Patent family

US 6362178

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 (17)

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 12, 1997
Projected expiration
Nov 12, 2017expired
Application number
US09/554,162

Parent applications (1)

Family members (8)

Other priority claims (7)

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