Patent Family Due Diligence Tree

Patent family due diligence tree

This due diligence patent family tree distinguishes live and inactive branches from a common priority filing. It shows a PCT application, a granted US parent with pending and abandoned descendants, a granted EP case, a lapsed Canadian branch and a pending Japanese branch. The status labels help reviewers focus on potentially enforceable or still-prosecuting rights, while preserving the complete procedural family. The drawing does not establish ownership, enforceability, maintenance or claim overlap. Those issues require records and legal analysis. Use the tree as a triage aid for a transaction, freedom-to-operate review or portfolio cleanup. Pair it with a dated status search and an ownership review before conclusions are reached.

Type OrganigrammeNorme Reingold-Tilford tidy treeMoteur schematex-orgchartMis à jour 24/09/2026

La demande

“A patent family due diligence tree: US 62/555555 filed 2019-09-10, PCT/US2020/050505, a granted US 17/678901 with pending continuations US 18/678901 and US 19/678901 and an abandoned divisional US 18/789012, granted EP 20876543.2 with a German validation in force, lapsed Canadian application CA 3141592, and pending Japanese application JP 2022-501234.”

Essayez ensuiteAdd an assignment note to the US parentMark the Japanese application as granted

Ce que contient ce dessin

Comprenez les décisions qui le sous-tendent.

01Status coverage

Label granted, pending, abandoned and lapsed branches.

02US descendants

Keep continuations and divisionals under their parent.

03Jurisdiction view

Put each national-phase case below the PCT.

Use this to identify live and inactive branches before deeper legal review.

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FAQ

Questions fréquentes

What does abandoned mean?

It means the application is no longer being prosecuted as an active application.

What does lapsed mean?

It generally indicates that a granted right is no longer in force, often because a required action was not taken.

Is a family tree enough for due diligence?

No. It is a visual starting point that must be checked against official records and legal analysis.