Patent family

US 7689716

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 (20)

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
Dec 8, 1998
Projected expiration
Dec 8, 2018expired
Application number
US11/427,143

Parent applications (2)

Family members (2)

  • US7194554B1On dossierfiled Oct 20, 2000Expired - Lifetime
  • US8266269B2On dossierfiled Dec 19, 2011Expired - Fee Related

Other priority claims (15)

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