Patent family

US 8315640

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 (37)

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
May 21, 1999
Projected expiration
May 21, 2019expired
Application number
US12/645,937

Parent applications (1)

Family members (21)

Other priority claims (14)

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