201.08 Continuation-in-Part Application [R-3]
A continuation-in-part is an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application and adding matter not disclosed in the said earlier nonprovisional application.
要file C,其母案B必须pending,而且C必须含有B中没有的disclosure,否则就是一般的continuation而不是cip。母案公开不影响C的新颖性或创新性 |