What is a continuation-in-part application?
Sometimes, during the
application process, it will be necessary for the inventor to add some new
matter to the specification (if, for example, during the time
the application is pending, the inventor makes some improvement to
his invention). If this happens, a continuation-in-part application (also
referred to as a “CIP application”) can be filed by the inventor, containing
the new specification information. This CIP application will be related to
the original application (a.k.a. the “parent application”) because most of the
specification is the same as the parent application’s specification.
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