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| Two Levels Forward Patent Landscape Map™ for U.S. 5,000,000 |
| The patent map shown in the Map View tab is a Single Patent Landscape Map. U.S. Patent 5,000,000 cites no other patents as prior art. This is often a sign of a "revolutionary" invention as opposed to an "evolutionary" invention that builds on prior work. Another sign of an important invention is the degree to which it is directly or indirectly cited by other patents. As shown in the Single Patent Landscape Map, U.S. 5,000,000 was cited by 23 patents as of August 2010. We prepared a "Two Level Forward Landscape Map" to see the extent of "indirect citation" of U.S. 5,000,000. |
| A Two Level Forward Patent Citation Map™ shows the original patent(s) (shaded in yellow), the "first level" patents that cite it/them (here the 23 patents shaded in cyan), and the "second level" patents that cite the first level patents (49 patents in this case). |
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Owners of Patents on this Map (color at top of boxes) |
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| ◄ First Level Patents. The 23 first level forward citation patents are shown shaded in cyan color on this map. These are the patents shown on the Single Patent Landscape Map. | |||
| ◄ Second Level Patents. The 49 unique second level forward citation patents are shown with no body coloring. [NOTE: There are 59 patents that cite one or more of the first level patents but ten of these are themselves first level patents that cite other first level patents.] Click on the Map Image to view a live interactive map on IPVision's free See-the-Forest.com Patent Analytics website. | |||
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