Patent family

US 8457228

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 (10)

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 5, 1997
Projected expiration
Dec 5, 2017expired
Application number
US13/198,568

Parent applications (1)

Family members (4)

Other priority claims (4)

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