continuing application

A patent application that is filed while the parent application is pending and that carries on prosecution of some or all of the original application.

• Continuation, continuation-in-part, divisional, and reissue applications are all forms of continuing applications. [Cases: Patents 110. C.J.S. Patents § 156.]

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