effective filing date

Patents. The date that a patent application is considered to have been filed.

• The actual filing date may be later, as for a continuing application. But under the doctrine of continuity, the child application is usu. entitled to the filing date of the parent application to prove priority.

— Also termed parent filing date. See CONTINUITY. [Cases: Patents 110. C.J.S. Patents § 156.]

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