continuing application

Under United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application which follows an "original" patent application.For instance, a continuing patent application may be a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part application. Those are three special types of patent applications. While continuation and continuation-in-part applications are generally a US concept, divisional patent applications have wider application and their availability is required by Article 4G of the Paris Convention.
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a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part patent application

Context: Patent