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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译者蒋毅，毕业于亚洲顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与破产与资产重组相关的法律文件。