Patent family

US 6859831

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 (21)

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
Oct 6, 1999
Projected expiration
Oct 6, 2019expired
Application number
US09/685,018

Other priority claims (20)

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