# How to View the Patent Family of an Application?

Source: https://help.triangleip.com/knowledge-base/how-to-view-the-patent-family-of-an-application/
Category: Patent Portfolio Manager
Last updated: 2025-07-07

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When managing global IP rights, it's crucial to understand how a single invention evolves across jurisdictions. The TIP Tool™ simplifies this with a **Patent Family View** showing how a U.S. application relates to its foreign counterparts, continuations, divisionals, and parent filings.

### What is a Patent Family?

A **patent family** is a group of related applications that share a common priority such as a continuation, divisional, or foreign filing derived from the same original invention.

The TIP Tool™ automatically identifies and displays these family connections based on:

- U.S. serial number relationships
- International counterparts via **Espacenet**
- Priority claims and filing structures

### Where to Find the Patent Family View

There are two ways to see the patent families:

1. Go to **Portfolio Manager**

**One way of doing it**: Spot the application whose patent families you want to view. There’s a column at the end labeled ‘Foreign Families’.

2. **Another way:** Click on the application you want to explore
3. Scroll to the **bottom** of the application page
4. Locate the **Continuity Data** where you find **Gantt Chart** view of patent families.
5. Or at the top of the Application detail page, you'll see an option for the **Family Tree**. Clicking on it will take you to the tool's patent family tree feature.

**🔗 Learn more about Family Tree here:** [How to Understand Patent Families Using the TIP Tool™ Family Tree?](https://help.triangleip.com/llms-guides/how-to-understand-patent-families-using-the-tip-tools-family-tree.txt)

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