# Patent family

The set of related patents and applications that share a common priority claim — an original application plus its continuations, divisionals, and foreign counterparts. Members of a family typically share the same earliest filing (priority) date.

**Full entry:** https://patentbrief.org/glossary/patent-family

**All patent terms:** https://patentbrief.org/glossary

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_Source: PatentBrief — https://patentbrief.org. A plain-English glossary of US patent terms._