What is a continuation application?
During the process of
seeking a patent, the patent examiner at the PTO may require changes to the
application’s claims (or require that certain claims simply
be removed), but not the overall specification. If
the inventor has to remove part of some of his claims, he may be able to file
those removed parts in a separate application. This new application is
called a continuation application, because it is a continuation of that
original (or “parent”) application.
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