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.

Tipo OrganogramaNorma Reingold-Tilford tidy treeMecanismo schematex-orgchartAtualizado 24/09/2026

A solicitação

“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.”

Depois, tenteAdd an assignment note to the US parentMark the Japanese application as granted

O que há neste desenho

Entenda as decisões por trás dele.

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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Perguntas frequentes

Dúvidas comuns

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It generally indicates that a granted right is no longer in force, often because a required action was not taken.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