Amoco Company has two patents of the same family (as shown below):
Amoco Company’s patent information is as shown below:
Amoco Company once It is the twelfth largest upstream and downstream integrated multinational oil company in the world and the fifth largest in the United States, with operations in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. Its business scope includes:
(1) Domestic and foreign oil and gas exploration and development;
(2) Domestic oil refining and domestic and foreign oil product sales;
(3) Domestic and foreign chemical production and sales;
(4) Pipeline and tanker transportation;
(5) Finance, insurance and other businesses.
Extended information:
WIPO's "Industrial Property Information and Documentation Manual" divides patent families into six types: simple patent families, complex patent families, extended patent families, and domestic patent families. Internal patent families and artificial patent families. Baidu Encyclopedia - Amoco
1. Simple patent family (Simplepatent family)
In the same patent family, patent family members are identified by ***the same one or ***the same Several patent applications have priority, and such a patent family is a simple patent family.
2. Complex patent family (Complexpatent family)
In the same patent family, patent family members have at least one identical patent application as priority. Such a patent family For complex patent families.
3. Extended patent family (Extended patent family)
In the same patent family, each patent family member is at least *** the same as at least one other patent family member in the group. With one patent application as priority, the patent family formed by them is an extended patent family.
4. National patent family (Nationalpatent family)
National patent family refers to the same patent family, and each patent family member is a patent document from the same country. These patent documents Supplementary patents, continuation applications, partial continuation applications, divisional applications, etc. belonging to the same original application, but do not include patent documents published in different review and approval stages for the same patent application.
5. Domestic patent family (Domestic patent family)
Domestic patent family refers to a patent consisting only of a set of patent documents published by one patent agency on the same original application in different approval procedures. clan.
6. Artificial Patent Family (ArtificialPatentFamily)
Artificial patent family is also called intelligent patent family and unconventional patent family, that is, the content is basically the same, but it is not the same one. Or several patent applications are priority rights, but are artificially classified according to the technical content of the patent documents to form a patent family consisting of patent documents published in different countries, but in fact there is no difference between these patent documents. Any priority contact.
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