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  • (1) An application for patent filed under\n section 111(a) or section\n 363 for an invention disclosed in the manner provided\n by section 112(a) (other than the requirement to\n disclose the best mode) in a provisional application filed under\n section 111(b), by an inventor or inventors named in\n the provisional application, shall have the same effect, as to such\n invention, as though filed on the date of the provisional application filed\n under section 111(b), if the\n application for patent filed under section 111(a) or\n section 363 is filed not later than 12 months after\n the date on which the provisional application was filed and if it contains\n or is amended to contain a specific reference to the provisional\n application. The Director may prescribe regulations, including the\n requirement for payment of the fee specified in section 41(a)(7), pursuant to which the 12-month period set\n forth in this subsection may be extended by an additional 2 months if the\n delay in filing the application under section 111(a) or section 363\n within the 12-month period was unintentional. No application shall be\n entitled to the benefit of an earlier filed provisional application under\n this subsection unless an amendment containing the specific reference to the\n earlier filed provisional application is submitted at such time during the\n pendency of the application as required by the Director. The Director may\n consider the failure to submit such an amendment within that time period as\n a waiver of any benefit under this subsection. The Director may establish\n procedures, including the payment of the fee specified in section\n 41(a)(7), to accept an unintentionally delayed\n submission of an amendment under this subsection. \n
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  • (2) A provisional application filed under\n section 111(b) may not be relied upon in any\n proceeding in the Patent and Trademark Office unless the fee set forth in\n subparagraph (A) or (C) of section 41(a)(1) has\n been paid. \n
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  • (3) If the day that is 12 months after the filing\n date of a provisional application falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal\n holiday within the District of Columbia, the period of pendency of the\n provisional application shall be extended to the next succeeding secular or\n business day. For an application for patent filed under section\n 363 in a Receiving Office other than the Patent and\n Trademark Office, the 12-month and additional 2-month period set forth in\n this subsection shall be extended as provided under the treaty and\n Regulations as defined in section 351.\n
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  • (i) Filed not later than twelve months\n after the date on which the provisional application was filed, subject\n to paragraph (b) of this section (a subsequent application); or\n
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  • (ii) Entitled to claim the benefit under\n 35 U.S.C. 120,\n 121, or\n 365(c) of a subsequent application that was\n filed within the period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this\n section.\n
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  • (2) Each prior-filed provisional application\n must name the inventor or a joint inventor named in the later-filed\n application as the inventor or a joint inventor. In addition, each\n prior-filed provisional application must be entitled to a filing date as set\n forth in § 1.53(c), and the basic\n filing fee set forth in § 1.16(d) must have been\n paid for such provisional application within the time period set forth in §\n 1.53(g).\n
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  • (3) Any nonprovisional application or international\n application designating the United States that claims the benefit of one or\n more prior-filed provisional applications must contain, or be amended to\n contain, a reference to each such prior-filed provisional application,\n identifying it by the provisional application number (consisting of series\n code and serial number). If the later-filed application is a nonprovisional\n application, the reference required by this paragraph must be included in an\n application data sheet (§ 1.76(b)(5)).\n
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  • (4) The reference required by paragraph (a)(3) of this\n section must be submitted during the pendency of the later-filed\n application. If the later-filed application is an application filed under\n 35 U.S.C. 111(a), this reference must also be\n submitted within the later of four months from the actual filing date of the\n later-filed application or sixteen months from the filing date of the\n prior-filed provisional application. If the later-filed application is a\n nonprovisional application entering the national stage from an international\n application under 35 U.S.C. 371, this\n reference must also be submitted within the later of four months from the\n date on which the national stage commenced under 35 U.S.C.\n 371(b) or (f) (§ 1.491(a)), four months from the date of the initial\n submission under 35 U.S.C. 371 to enter\n the national stage, or sixteen months from the filing date of the\n prior-filed provisional application. Except as provided in paragraph (c) of\n this section, failure to timely submit the reference is considered a waiver\n of any benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) of the\n prior-filed provisional application. The time periods in this paragraph do\n not apply if the later-filed application is:\n
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  • (5) If the prior-filed provisional application\n was filed in a language other than English and both an English-language\n translation of the prior-filed provisional application and a statement that\n the translation is accurate were not previously filed in the prior-filed\n provisional application, the applicant will be notified and given a period\n of time within which to file, in the prior-filed provisional application,\n the translation and the statement. If the notice is mailed in a pending\n nonprovisional application, a timely reply to such a notice must include the\n filing in the nonprovisional application of either a confirmation that the\n translation and statement were filed in the provisional application, or an\n application data sheet (§ 1.76(b)(5)) eliminating\n the reference under paragraph (a)(3) of this section to the prior-filed\n provisional application, or the nonprovisional application will be\n abandoned. The translation and statement may be filed in the provisional\n application, even if the provisional application has become abandoned.\n
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  • (6) If a nonprovisional application filed on or after\n March 16, 2013, claims the benefit of the filing date of a provisional\n application filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained\n at any time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing\n date as defined in § 1.109 that is on or\n after March 16, 2013, the applicant must provide a statement to that effect\n within the later of four months from the actual filing date of the\n nonprovisional application, four months from the date of entry into the\n national stage as set forth in § 1.491 in an\n international application, sixteen months from the filing date of the\n prior-filed provisional application, or the date that a first claim to a\n claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March 16,\n 2013, is presented in the nonprovisional application. An applicant is not\n required to provide such a statement if the applicant reasonably believes on\n the basis of information already known to the individuals designated in §\n 1.56(c) that the nonprovisional application does not,\n and did not at any time, contain a claim to a claimed invention that has an\n effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013.\n
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  • (i) The reference required by\n 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to the prior-filed provisional\n application in an application data sheet (§ 1.76(b)(5)) identifying it by provisional\n application number (consisting of series code and serial number),\n unless previously submitted;\n
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  • (ii) The petition fee as set forth in §\n 1.17(m); and \n
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  • (iii) A statement that the delay in filing\n the subsequent nonprovisional application or international application\n designating the United States within the twelve-month period set forth\n in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section was unintentional. The Director\n may require additional information where there is a question whether\n the delay was unintentional.\n
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  • (1) A petition to restore the benefit of a\n provisional application under this paragraph filed on or after May 13, 2015,\n must be filed in the subsequent application, and any petition to restore the\n benefit of a provisional application under this paragraph must include:\n
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  • (2) The restoration of the right of priority\n under PCT\n Rule 26bis.3 to a provisional\n application does not affect the requirement to include the reference\n required by paragraph (a)(3) of this section to the provisional application\n in a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371 within the\n time period provided by paragraph (a)(4) of this section to avoid the\n benefit claim being considered waived.\n
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  • (1) The reference required by 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) and paragraph (a)(3) of this section to the\n prior-filed provisional application, unless previously submitted;\n
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  • (2) The petition fee as set forth in §\n 1.17(m); and\n
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  • (3) A statement that the entire delay between\n the date the benefit claim was due under paragraph (a)(4) of this section\n and the date the benefit claim was filed was unintentional. The Director may\n require additional information where there is a question whether the delay\n was unintentional.\n
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  • (ii) An international design application\n entitled to a filing date in accordance with § 1.1023 and designating the United States;\n or\n
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  • (iii) A nonprovisional application under\n 35 U.S.C. 111(a)\n that is entitled to a filing date as set forth in § 1.53(b) or (d) for which the basic filing fee set forth in\n § 1.16 has been paid within the pendency of the\n application.\n
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  • (i) The reference required by\n 35 U.S.C. 120 and\n paragraph (d)(2) of this section must be submitted during the pendency\n of the later-filed application.\n
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  • (ii) If the later-filed application is an\n application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a),\n this reference must also be submitted within the later of four months\n from the actual filing date of the later-filed application or sixteen\n months from the filing date of the prior-filed application. If the\n later-filed application is a nonprovisional application entering the\n national stage from an international application under\n 35 U.S.C. 371, this reference must also be\n submitted within the later of four months from the date on which the\n national stage commenced under 35 U.S.C. 371(b)\n or (f) (§ 1.491(a)), four\n months from the date of the initial submission under 35 U.S.C.\n 371 to enter the national stage, or sixteen\n months from the filing date of the prior-filed application. The time\n periods in this paragraph do not apply if the later-filed application\n is:\n
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  • (iii) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of\n this section, failure to timely submit the reference required by\n 35 U.S.C. 120 and\n paragraph (d)(2) of this section is considered a waiver of any benefit\n under 35 U.S.C. 120,\n 121,\n 365(c), or 386(c) to the prior-filed application.\n
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  • (i) The application claims the benefit of\n a nonprovisional application in which a statement under §\n 1.55(k), paragraph\n (a)(6) of this section, or this paragraph that the application\n contains, or contained at any time, a claim to a claimed invention\n that has an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013 has been\n filed; or\n
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  • (ii) The applicant reasonably believes on\n the basis of information already known to the individuals designated\n in § 1.56(c) that the\n later filed application does not, and did not at any time, contain a\n claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or\n after March 16, 2013.\n
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  • (1) Each prior-filed application must name the\n inventor or a joint inventor named in the later-filed application as the\n inventor or a joint inventor. In addition, each prior-filed application must\n either be:\n
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  • (2) Except for a continued prosecution\n application filed under § 1.53(d), any\n nonprovisional application, international application designating the United\n States, or international design application designating the United States\n that claims the benefit of one or more prior-filed nonprovisional\n applications, international applications designating the United States, or\n international design applications designating the United States must contain\n or be amended to contain a reference to each such prior-filed application,\n identifying it by application number (consisting of the series code and\n serial number), international application number and international filing\n date, or international registration number and filing date under §\n 1.1023. If the\n later-filed application is a nonprovisional application, the reference\n required by this paragraph must be included in an application data sheet (§\n 1.76(b)(5)). The reference also must identify the\n relationship of the applications, namely, whether the later-filed\n application is a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part of the\n prior-filed nonprovisional application, international application, or\n international design application.\n
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  • (4) The request for a continued prosecution\n application under § 1.53(d) is the specific\n reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 to the\n prior-filed application. The identification of an application by application\n number under this section is the identification of every application\n assigned that application number necessary for a specific reference required\n by 35\n U.S.C. 120 to every such application assigned that\n application number.\n
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  • (5) Cross-references to other related\n applications may be made when appropriate (see § 1.14), but cross-references to applications for which\n a benefit is not claimed under title 35, United States Code, must not be\n included in an application data sheet (§ 1.76(b)(5)).\n
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  • (6) If a nonprovisional application filed on or\n after March 16, 2013, other than a nonprovisional international design\n application, claims the benefit of the filing date of a nonprovisional\n application or an international application designating the United States\n filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained at any time,\n a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date as defined\n in § 1.109 that is on or after March 16, 2013, the\n applicant must provide a statement to that effect within the later of four\n months from the actual filing date of the later-filed application, four\n months from the date of entry into the national stage as set forth in §\n 1.491 in an international application, sixteen months\n from the filing date of the prior-filed application, or the date that a\n first claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or\n after March 16, 2013, is presented in the later-filed application. An\n applicant is not required to provide such a statement if either:\n
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  • (7) Where benefit is claimed under\n 35\n U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) to an\n international application or an international design application which\n designates but did not originate in the United States, the Office may\n require a certified copy of such application together with an English\n translation thereof if filed in another language.\n
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  • (1) The reference required by 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and paragraph (d)(2) of this section to the\n prior-filed application, unless previously submitted;\n
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  • (3) A statement that the entire delay between\n the date the benefit claim was due under paragraph (d)(3) of this section\n and the date the benefit claim was filed was unintentional. The Director may\n require additional information where there is a question whether the delay\n was unintentional.\n
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  • (a) Claims under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the\n benefit of a prior-filed provisional application. An applicant in a\n nonprovisional application, other than for a design patent, or an international\n application designating the United States may claim the benefit of one or more\n prior-filed provisional applications under the conditions set forth in\n 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) and this section.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(a) Claims under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application. An applicant in a nonprovisional application, other than for a design patent, or an international application designating the United States may claim the benefit of one or more prior-filed provisional applications under the conditions set forth in 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and this section.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_aia_d0e320670","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(a)","enumerator_ordinal":0,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":["ls_tyo46mzg"]},{"id":"li_p2vz7x5x","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_p2vz7x5x","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (b) Delayed filing of the subsequent nonprovisional application or\n international application designating the United States. If the\n subsequent nonprovisional application or international application designating the\n United States has a filing date which is after the expiration of the twelve-month\n period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section but within two months from\n the expiration of the period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section, the\n benefit of the provisional application may be restored under PCT Rule\n 26bis.3 for an international\n application, or upon petition pursuant to this paragraph, if the delay in filing\n the subsequent nonprovisional application or international application designating\n the United States within the period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this\n section was unintentional.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(b) Delayed filing of the subsequent nonprovisional application or international application designating the United States. If the subsequent nonprovisional application or international application designating the United States has a filing date which is after the expiration of the twelve-month period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section but within two months from the expiration of the period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section, the benefit of the provisional application may be restored under PCT Rule 26bis.3 for an international application, or upon petition pursuant to this paragraph, if the delay in filing the subsequent nonprovisional application or international application designating the United States within the period set forth in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section was unintentional.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d22415_19614_384pb","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(b)","enumerator_ordinal":1,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":["ls_dgf4mfdr"]},{"id":"li_fbqajfvn","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_fbqajfvn","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (c) Delayed claims under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the\n benefit of a prior-filed provisional application. If the reference\n required by 35\n U.S.C. 119(e) and paragraph (a)(3) of this section is\n presented in an application after the time period provided by paragraph (a)(4) of\n this section, the claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the\n benefit of a prior-filed provisional application may be accepted if the reference\n identifying the prior-filed application by provisional application number was\n unintentionally delayed. A petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional\n application must be accompanied by:\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(c) Delayed claims under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application. If the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and paragraph (a)(3) of this section is presented in an application after the time period provided by paragraph (a)(4) of this section, the claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application may be accepted if the reference identifying the prior-filed application by provisional application number was unintentionally delayed. A petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application must be accompanied by:","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_aia_d0e320915","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(c)","enumerator_ordinal":2,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":["ls_6g4xu65p"]},{"id":"li_mplbdte7","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_mplbdte7","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (d) Claims under 35 U.S.C. 120,\n 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed nonprovisional\n application, international application, or international design\n application. An applicant in a nonprovisional application (including\n a nonprovisional application resulting from an international application or\n international design application), an international application designating the\n United States, or an international design application designating the United\n States may claim the benefit of one or more prior-filed copending nonprovisional\n applications, international applications designating the United States, or\n international design applications designating the United States under the\n conditions set forth in 35 U.S.C. 120,\n 121, 365(c), or 386(c) and this section.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(d) Claims under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed nonprovisional application, international application, or international design application. An applicant in a nonprovisional application (including a nonprovisional application resulting from an international application or international design application), an international application designating the United States, or an international design application designating the United States may claim the benefit of one or more prior-filed copending nonprovisional applications, international applications designating the United States, or international design applications designating the United States under the conditions set forth in 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) and this section.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_aia_d0e320919","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(d)","enumerator_ordinal":3,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":["ls_s2q5udla"]},{"id":"li_w47dxxk2","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_w47dxxk2","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (e) Delayed claims under 35 U.S.C. 120,\n 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed nonprovisional\n application, international application, or international design\n application. If the reference required by 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and paragraph (d)(2) of this section is presented after\n the time period provided by paragraph (d)(3) of this section, the claim under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed copending\n nonprovisional application, international application designating the United\n States, or international design application designating the United States may be\n accepted if the reference required by paragraph (d)(2) of this section was\n unintentionally delayed. A petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim\n under 35\n U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed application must be\n accompanied by:\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(e) Delayed claims under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed nonprovisional application, international application, or international design application. If the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 and paragraph (d)(2) of this section is presented after the time period provided by paragraph (d)(3) of this section, the claim under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed copending nonprovisional application, international application designating the United States, or international design application designating the United States may be accepted if the reference required by paragraph (d)(2) of this section was unintentionally delayed. A petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed application must be accompanied by:","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d1fc99_20861_f2","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(e)","enumerator_ordinal":4,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":["ls_7b57tt2t"]},{"id":"li_7hczsplk","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_7hczsplk","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (f) Applications containing patentably indistinct claims. Where two\n or more applications filed by the same applicant or assignee contain patentably\n indistinct claims, elimination of such claims from all but one application may be\n required in the absence of good and sufficient reason for their retention during\n pendency in more than one application.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(f) Applications containing patentably indistinct claims. Where two or more applications filed by the same applicant or assignee contain patentably indistinct claims, elimination of such claims from all but one application may be required in the absence of good and sufficient reason for their retention during pendency in more than one application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d1fc99_208da_3c4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(f)","enumerator_ordinal":5,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":null},{"id":"li_gyrbgkbk","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_gyrbgkbk","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (g) Applications or patents under reexamination naming different inventors\n and containing patentably indistinct claims. If an application or a\n patent under reexamination and at least one other application naming different\n inventors are owned by the same person and contain patentably indistinct claims,\n and there is no statement of record indicating that the claimed inventions were\n commonly owned or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person on the\n effective filing date (as defined in § 1.109), or on the date of the\n invention, as applicable, of the later claimed invention, the Office may require\n the applicant or assignee to state whether the claimed inventions were commonly\n owned or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person on such date,\n and if not, indicate which named inventor is the prior inventor, as applicable.\n Even if the claimed inventions were commonly owned, or subject to an obligation of\n assignment to the same person on the effective filing date (as defined in §\n 1.109), or on the date of the invention, as applicable, of\n the later claimed invention, the patentably indistinct claims may be rejected\n under the doctrine of double patenting in view of such commonly owned or assigned\n applications or patents under reexamination.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(g) Applications or patents under reexamination naming different inventors and containing patentably indistinct claims. If an application or a patent under reexamination and at least one other application naming different inventors are owned by the same person and contain patentably indistinct claims, and there is no statement of record indicating that the claimed inventions were commonly owned or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person on the effective filing date (as defined in § 1.109), or on the date of the invention, as applicable, of the later claimed invention, the Office may require the applicant or assignee to state whether the claimed inventions were commonly owned or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person on such date, and if not, indicate which named inventor is the prior inventor, as applicable. Even if the claimed inventions were commonly owned, or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person on the effective filing date (as defined in § 1.109), or on the date of the invention, as applicable, of the later claimed invention, the patentably indistinct claims may be rejected under the doctrine of double patenting in view of such commonly owned or assigned applications or patents under reexamination.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d1fc99_208ee_2d5","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(g)","enumerator_ordinal":6,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":null},{"id":"li_norjoeiz","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_norjoeiz","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (h) Applications filed before September 16, 2012. Notwithstanding\n the requirement in paragraphs (a)(3) and (d)(2) of this section that any specific\n reference to a prior-filed application be presented in an application data sheet\n (§ 1.76), this requirement in paragraph (a)(3) and (d)(2) of\n this section will be satisfied by the presentation of such specific reference in\n the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title in a nonprovisional\n application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) before\n September 16, 2012, or resulting from an international application filed under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 363 before September 16, 2012. The provisions of this\n paragraph do not apply to any specific reference submitted for a petition under\n paragraph (b) of this section to restore the benefit of a provisional\n application.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(h) Applications filed before September 16, 2012. Notwithstanding the requirement in paragraphs (a)(3) and (d)(2) of this section that any specific reference to a prior-filed application be presented in an application data sheet (§ 1.76), this requirement in paragraph (a)(3) and (d)(2) of this section will be satisfied by the presentation of such specific reference in the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title in a nonprovisional application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) before September 16, 2012, or resulting from an international application filed under 35 U.S.C. 363 before September 16, 2012. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to any specific reference submitted for a petition under paragraph (b) of this section to restore the benefit of a provisional application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d1fc99_20922_392","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(h)","enumerator_ordinal":7,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":null},{"id":"li_wg2rirjp","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_wg2rirjp","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (i) Petitions required in international applications. If a petition\n under paragraph (b), (c), or (e) of this section is required in an international\n application that was not filed with the United States Receiving Office and is not\n a nonprovisional application, then such petition may be filed in the earliest\n nonprovisional application that claims benefit under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) to the international application and will be treated\n as having been filed in the international application.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(i) Petitions required in international applications. If a petition under paragraph (b), (c), or (e) of this section is required in an international application that was not filed with the United States Receiving Office and is not a nonprovisional application, then such petition may be filed in the earliest nonprovisional application that claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) to the international application and will be treated as having been filed in the international application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d22556_20b9b_3a","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(i)","enumerator_ordinal":8,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":null},{"id":"li_7jrjgw2c","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_7jrjgw2c","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (j) Benefit under 35 U.S.C. 386(c).\n Benefit under 35 U.S.C. 386(c) with respect\n to an international design application is applicable only to nonprovisional\n applications, international applications, and international design applications\n filed on or after May 13, 2015, and patents issuing thereon.\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(j) Benefit under 35 U.S.C. 386(c). Benefit under 35 U.S.C. 386(c) with respect to an international design application is applicable only to nonprovisional applications, international applications, and international design applications filed on or after May 13, 2015, and patents issuing thereon.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d22556_20bdc_2da","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(j)","enumerator_ordinal":9,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":null},{"id":"li_wjco22o5","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_wjco22o5","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (k) Time periods in this section. The time periods set forth in\n this section are not extendable, but are subject to 35 U.S.C.\n 21(b) (and § 1.7(a)), PCT Rule\n 80.5, and Hague Agreement Rule 4(4).\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(k) Time periods in this section. The time periods set forth in this section are not extendable, but are subject to 35 U.S.C. 21(b) (and § 1.7(a)), PCT Rule 80.5, and Hague Agreement Rule 4(4).","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"s211_ar_d22556_20bf2_135","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(k)","enumerator_ordinal":10,"parent_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","child_ids":null},{"id":"sb_nfjyuvtw","node_type":"statutory_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/sb_nfjyuvtw","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_1c153_11e","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211__sb_nfjyuvtw","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211__sb_nfjyuvtw","authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.78","citation_title_text":"37 CFR 1.78","heading":"Claiming benefit of earlier filing date and cross-references to other applications.","body_list_id":"ls_74vmqyzx","host_section_id":"se_rb6cntom"},{"id":"pb_zgwuk5fu","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_zgwuk5fu","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    There are several procedural requirements for a later-filed\n application to claim the benefit of the filing date of a prior-filed application under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) or, provided the later-filed application is not a design\n application (see 35\n U.S.C. 172), under 35 U.S.C. 119(e). These requirements\n are briefly summarized below, followed by a cross-reference to the MPEP section where the\n requirement is discussed in greater detail. \n

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  • (1) Notify applicant that the claims in the\n later-filed application are not entitled to the benefit of an earlier filing\n date because one or more conditions for receiving the benefit of an earlier\n filing date have not been satisfied (the examiner may use form paragraph\n 2.09\n and other appropriate form paragraphs provided in the following subsections);\n and\n
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  • (2) Conduct a prior art search based on the actual\n filing date of the application instead of the earlier filing date. The examiner\n may use an intervening reference in a rejection until applicant corrects the\n benefit claim or shows that the conditions for entitlement to the benefit of\n the prior application have been met. \n
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  • (A) The prior-filed application must be entitled to a\n filing date and meet additional requirements as discussed in MPEP §\n 211.01. \n
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  • (B) The later-filed application must name the inventor or\n at least one joint inventor named in the prior-filed application for a benefit claim\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e), 120, 121,\n 365(c), or 386(c) (see MPEP §\n 211.01).\n
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  • (C) For a benefit claim under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e), 120, 121,\n 365(c), or 386(c), the later-filed\n application must contain a reference to the prior-filed application (see\n MPEP §\n 211.02).\n
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  • (D) The reference to the prior-filed application must be\n submitted within the time periods set forth in 37 CFR\n 1.78. See MPEP § 211.03. However, the Office\n will accept an unintentionally delayed benefit claim in certain circumstances. See\n MPEP §\n 211.04. \n
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  • (E) In order to be entitled to the benefit of the\n prior-filed application, the earlier application must disclose the claimed invention\n of the later-filed application in the manner provided by 35 U.S.C.\n 112(a) except for the best mode requirement. See\n MPEP §\n 211.05. \n
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  • (F) If a nonprovisional application, other than a\n nonprovisional international design application, filed on or after March 16, 2013,\n claims the benefit of the filing date of a provisional or nonprovisional application\n filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained at any time, a claim\n to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013,\n the applicant must provide a statement to that effect within a specified time period.\n See 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(6) and (d)(6) and MPEP §\n 210, subsection III. If the claims in the later-filed\n application are not entitled to the benefit of an earlier filing date, the examiner\n should:\n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(F) If a nonprovisional application, other than a nonprovisional international design application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, claims the benefit of the filing date of a provisional or nonprovisional application filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained at any time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013, the applicant must provide a statement to that effect within a specified time period. See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) and (d)(6) and MPEP § 210, subsection III. If the claims in the later-filed application are not entitled to the benefit of an earlier filing date, the examiner should:","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_204d5_30d","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(F)","enumerator_ordinal":5,"parent_list_id":"ls_2cgx2gz6","child_ids":["ls_jhzbhohd"]},{"id":"se_udlqi35s","node_type":"section","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/se_udlqi35s","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_20869_145","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_01","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_01","section_number":"211.01","chapter":"200","depth":1,"title":"Requirements Related to the Prior-Filed Application","revision_tag":"R-07.2022","parent_section_id":"se_rb6cntom","children_ids":["pb_zdrje6jq","pb_2vfddrli","fp_oei6zhla","pb_2zcvml66","pb_gjqbcfds","pb_u6kqwsv6","pb_zly7ov4p","pb_sofoywbp","pb_zd6qiuin","pb_kagkyqec","se_qrivn46l","se_3k6wvl4g","se_laeslqzz","se_cley6tn6"]},{"id":"pb_zdrje6jq","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_zdrje6jq","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"I. THE PRIOR-FILED APPLICATION MUST BE ENTITLED TO A FILING DATE","rendered_text_plain":"I. THE PRIOR-FILED APPLICATION MUST BE ENTITLED TO A FILING DATE","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_udlqi35s/b.0","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"I. THE PRIOR-FILED APPLICATION MUST BE ENTITLED TO A FILING DATE","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"pb_2vfddrli","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_2vfddrli","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    If the prior-filed application is a nonprovisional\n application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a), the application\n must be entitled to a filing date as set forth in 37 CFR\n 1.53(b) or (d), and the basic filing fee as\n set forth in 37 CFR\n 1.16 must have been paid within the pendency of the\n application. See 37 CFR 1.78(d)(1)(iii). If the\n prior-filed application is an international application designating the United\n States, the prior-filed application must be entitled to a filing date in accordance\n with PCT Article\n 11. See 37 CFR 1.78(d)(1)(i). If the\n prior-filed application is an international design application designating the United\n States, the prior-filed application must be entitled to a filing date in accordance\n with 37\n CFR 1.1023. See 37 CFR 1.78(d)(1)(ii).\n

    If the prior-filed application is a provisional\n application, the provisional application must be entitled to a filing date as set\n forth in 37 CFR\n 1.53(c) and the basic filing fee of the provisional application\n must have been paid within the time period set in 37 CFR\n 1.53(g). See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(2).\n

    Form paragraph 2.40 may be used to notify applicant\n that the application is not entitled to the benefit of the prior-filed application\n because the prior-filed application was not entitled to a filing date and/or did not\n include the basic filing fee.\n

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    This application claims the benefit of prior-filed application No.\n [1] under 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) or\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e). If the prior-filed application is an international application\n designating the United States, it must be entitled to a filing date in accordance with\n PCT Article\n 11; if the prior-filed application is an international design\n application designating the United States, it must be entitled to a filing date in accordance\n with 37 CFR\n 1.1023; and if the prior-filed application is a nonprovisional\n application under 35\n U.S.C. 111(a), the prior-filed application must be entitled to a filing\n date as set forth in 37\n CFR 1.53(b) or 1.53(d) and include the basic filing fee\n set forth in 37 CFR\n 1.16. See 37 CFR 1.78(d)(1). If the prior-filed\n application is a provisional application, the prior-filed application must be entitled to a\n filing date as set forth in 37 CFR 1.53(c) and the basic filing fee\n must be paid within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.53(g). See 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(2).\n

    This application is not entitled to the\n benefit of the prior-filed application because the prior-filed application [2].\n Applicant is required to delete the benefit claim to the prior-filed application from the\n Application Data Sheet (ADS) or, for applications filed before September 16, 2012, from the\n ADS or the first sentence(s) of the specification as appropriate.\n

    ","placeholders":[{"index":1,"position_in_text":67,"inferred_slot_type":null},{"index":2,"position_in_text":1129,"inferred_slot_type":null}],"appears_in_section_ids":["se_udlqi35s"]},{"id":"pb_2zcvml66","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_2zcvml66","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    If a provisional application is abandoned due to, at\n least, a failure to pay the basic filing fee, applicant may still claim benefit to\n the prior-filed application by filing a petition to revive under 37 CFR 1.137 in\n the provisional application to pay the basic filing fee. If such a petition to revive\n is grantable, the decision granting the petition should indicate that the basic\n filing fee is being accepted as having been paid within the time period set forth in\n 37 CFR\n 1.53(g) for purposes of compliance with 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(2) in any subsequent nonprovisional application. \n

    A petition under 37 CFR 1.183 in order to claim\n benefit of such a provisional application is not necessary.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If a provisional application is abandoned due to, at least, a failure to pay the basic filing fee, applicant may still claim benefit to the prior-filed application by filing a petition to revive under 37 CFR 1.137 in the provisional application to pay the basic filing fee. If such a petition to revive is grantable, the decision granting the petition should indicate that the basic filing fee is being accepted as having been paid within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.53(g) for purposes of compliance with 37 CFR 1.78(a)(2) in any subsequent nonprovisional application. A petition under 37 CFR 1.183 in order to claim benefit of such a provisional application is not necessary.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_p_35b78_25429_1ea","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"st_j5hpd5wk","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_j5hpd5wk","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.137","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.137"},{"id":"st_xosjqwjl","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_xosjqwjl","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.183","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.183"},{"id":"pb_gjqbcfds","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_gjqbcfds","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"II. SAME INVENTOR OR A COMMON JOINT INVENTOR","rendered_text_plain":"II. SAME INVENTOR OR A COMMON JOINT INVENTOR","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_udlqi35s/b.4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"II. SAME INVENTOR OR A COMMON JOINT INVENTOR","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"pb_u6kqwsv6","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_u6kqwsv6","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    The statute requires that applications claiming benefit\n of the earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or\n 120 name the inventor or at least one joint inventor named in\n the previously filed application or provisional application. SeeMPEP §§\n 201.06, 602.01(c)et seq. and 1412.04 for correction of\n inventorship. If upon filing of the application and the filing of a relied upon\n prior-filed application there is an overlap in appropriately named inventorship, an\n application otherwise properly identified as a continuation, continuation-in-part or\n divisional application (and meeting all other requirements) can claim benefit of the\n prior-filed application's filing date pursuant to 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 121. Note that to be entitled to\n the benefit of any prior-filed application(s), in addition to naming the inventor or\n at least one common joint inventor, the invention claimed in the later-filed\n application must be supported in the manner provided by the 35 U.S.C.\n 112(a), except for the best mode requirement. See\n MPEP §\n 211.05.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"The statute requires that applications claiming benefit of the earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or 120 name the inventor or at least one joint inventor named in the previously filed application or provisional application. SeeMPEP §§ 201.06, 602.01(c)et seq. and 1412.04 for correction of inventorship. If upon filing of the application and the filing of a relied upon prior-filed application there is an overlap in appropriately named inventorship, an application otherwise properly identified as a continuation, continuation-in-part or divisional application (and meeting all other requirements) can claim benefit of the prior-filed application's filing date pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 120 and 121. Note that to be entitled to the benefit of any prior-filed application(s), in addition to naming the inventor or at least one common joint inventor, the invention claimed in the later-filed application must be supported in the manner provided by the 35 U.S.C. 112(a), except for the best mode requirement. See MPEP § 211.05.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_209b2_2b3","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"pb_zly7ov4p","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_zly7ov4p","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"III. TRANSITION APPLICATION STATEMENT","rendered_text_plain":"III. TRANSITION APPLICATION STATEMENT","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_udlqi35s/b.6","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"III. TRANSITION APPLICATION STATEMENT","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"pb_sofoywbp","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_sofoywbp","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    If a nonprovisional application filed on or after March\n 16, 2013, claims the benefit of the filing date of a provisional or nonprovisional\n application filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained at any\n time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after\n March 16, 2013, the applicant must provide a statement to that effect within a\n specified time period. See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) and\n (d)(6) and MPEP § 210, subsection III.\n Nonprovisional international design applications are excluded from the transition\n provisions of 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) and (d)(6).\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If a nonprovisional application filed on or after March 16, 2013, claims the benefit of the filing date of a provisional or nonprovisional application filed prior to March 16, 2013, and also contains, or contained at any time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013, the applicant must provide a statement to that effect within a specified time period. See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) and (d)(6) and MPEP § 210, subsection III. Nonprovisional international design applications are excluded from the transition provisions of 37 CFR 1.78(a)(6) and (d)(6).","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_209fd_340","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"pb_zd6qiuin","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_zd6qiuin","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"IV. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS","rendered_text_plain":"IV. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_udlqi35s/b.8","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"IV. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"pb_kagkyqec","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_kagkyqec","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    See MPEP §\n 211.01(a) for additional information and requirements\n specific to claiming the benefit of a provisional application.\n

    See MPEP § 211.01(b) for additional\n information and requirements specific to claiming the benefit of an earlier-filed\n nonprovisional application. \n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"See MPEP § 211.01(a) for additional information and requirements specific to claiming the benefit of a provisional application. See MPEP § 211.01(b) for additional information and requirements specific to claiming the benefit of an earlier-filed nonprovisional application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_20a48_1e9","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_udlqi35s"},{"id":"se_qrivn46l","node_type":"section","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/se_qrivn46l","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_20a5e_149","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_01_a","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_01_a","section_number":"211.01(a)","chapter":"200","depth":2,"title":"Claiming the Benefit of a Provisional Application","revision_tag":"R-07.2022","parent_section_id":"se_udlqi35s","children_ids":["pb_6jsa3yh6","pb_rna6dhre","fp_2v5rdz7k","pb_4muacl73","pb_x3qqijqc","pb_taxrgjen","ls_pvuk22mf","pb_kupduco3","fp_rx5lvigm"]},{"id":"pb_6jsa3yh6","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_6jsa3yh6","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"I. IN GENERAL","rendered_text_plain":"I. IN GENERAL","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_qrivn46l/b.0","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"I. IN GENERAL","host_section_id":"se_qrivn46l"},{"id":"pb_rna6dhre","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_rna6dhre","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    When a later-filed application is claiming the\n benefit of a prior-filed provisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e), the nonprovisional application must be filed not\n later than 12 months after the date on which the provisional application was\n filed, unless the benefit of the provisional application has been restored. See\n 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(1) and (b) and subsection II, below. If the day that is 12 months\n after the filing date of a provisional application falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or\n federal holiday within the District of Columbia, the nonprovisional application\n may be filed on the next succeeding business day. See 35 U.S.C.\n 21(b), 37 CFR 1.7(b), and\n MPEP § 201.04 and § 505.\n

    In addition, each prior-filed provisional\n application must have the same inventor or at least one joint inventor in common\n with the later-filed application and must be entitled to a filing date as set\n forth in 37\n CFR 1.53(c), and the basic filing fee set forth in\n 37 CFR\n 1.16(d) must have been paid for such provisional application\n within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.53(g). See\n 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(2) and MPEP §\n 211.01.\n

    If benefit is being claimed to a provisional\n application which was filed in a language other than English, (A) an English\n language translation of the provisional application, and (B) a statement that the\n translation is accurate, are required to be filed in the provisional application.\n If the translation and statement were not filed in the provisional application,\n the applicant will be notified in the nonprovisional application and given a\n period of time within which to file the translation and statement in the\n provisional application, and a reply in the nonprovisional application confirming\n that the translation and statement were filed in the provisional application. See\n 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(5). In the alternative, applicant may delete the\n benefit claim to the provisional application from the Application Data Sheet (ADS)\n or, for applications filed before September 16, 2012, from the ADS or the first\n sentence(s) of the specification, as appropriate. See MPEP §\n 601.05(a) or (b), as appropriate, for additional details on the\n requirements for a corrected or supplemental ADS. In a pending nonprovisional\n application, failure to timely reply to such notice will result in the abandonment\n of the nonprovisional application. Form paragraph 2.38 may be used to notify\n applicant that an English translation of the non-English language provisional\n application is required.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"When a later-filed application is claiming the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), the nonprovisional application must be filed not later than 12 months after the date on which the provisional application was filed, unless the benefit of the provisional application has been restored. See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1) and (b) and subsection II, below. If the day that is 12 months after the filing date of a provisional application falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or federal holiday within the District of Columbia, the nonprovisional application may be filed on the next succeeding business day. See 35 U.S.C. 21(b), 37 CFR 1.7(b), and MPEP § 201.04 and § 505. In addition, each prior-filed provisional application must have the same inventor or at least one joint inventor in common with the later-filed application and must be entitled to a filing date as set forth in 37 CFR 1.53(c), and the basic filing fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.16(d) must have been paid for such provisional application within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.53(g). See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(2) and MPEP § 211.01. If benefit is being claimed to a provisional application which was filed in a language other than English, (A) an English language translation of the provisional application, and (B) a statement that the translation is accurate, are required to be filed in the provisional application. If the translation and statement were not filed in the provisional application, the applicant will be notified in the nonprovisional application and given a period of time within which to file the translation and statement in the provisional application, and a reply in the nonprovisional application confirming that the translation and statement were filed in the provisional application. See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(5). In the alternative, applicant may delete the benefit claim to the provisional application from the Application Data Sheet (ADS) or, for applications filed before September 16, 2012, from the ADS or the first sentence(s) of the specification, as appropriate. See MPEP § 601.05(a) or (b), as appropriate, for additional details on the requirements for a corrected or supplemental ADS. In a pending nonprovisional application, failure to timely reply to such notice will result in the abandonment of the nonprovisional application. 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    This application claims benefit to\n provisional application No. [1], filed on [2], in a language other\n than English. An English translation of the non-English language provisional application and a\n statement that the translation is accurate must be filed in provisional application No.\n [3]. See 37 CFR 1.78. The [4] required\n by 37 CFR\n 1.78 is missing. Accordingly, applicant must supply 1) the missing\n [5] in provisional application No. [6] and 2) in the present\n application, a confirmation that the translation and statement were filed in the provisional\n application. If 1) and 2) are not filed (or if the benefit claim is not withdrawn) prior to\n the expiration of the time period set in this Office action, the present application will be\n abandoned. See 37\n CFR 1.78.\n

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    Applicant may claim the benefit of a provisional\n application by claiming the benefit of an intermediate copending nonprovisional\n application. The later-filed application must claim the benefit of the\n intermediate nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, or 365(c); the\n intermediate application must be filed not later than 12 months after the filing\n date of the provisional application (in which the basic filing fee was timely\n filed) unless the benefit of the provisional application has been restored (see\n 37 CFR 1.78(b) and subsection II, below); and in the\n later-filed application, the intermediate application must be clearly identified\n as claiming the benefit of the provisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e). See also MPEP §\n 211.01(b), subsection II. \n

    Design applications may not claim the benefit of a\n provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e). See\n 35 U.S.C.\n 172. Thus, where a design patent application claims benefit\n under 35\n U.S.C. 120 to an intermediate nonprovisional utility patent\n application that directly claims the benefit of a provisional application, the\n design application cannot claim the benefit of the filing date of the provisional\n application. \n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Applicant may claim the benefit of a provisional application by claiming the benefit of an intermediate copending nonprovisional application. The later-filed application must claim the benefit of the intermediate nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, or 365(c); the intermediate application must be filed not later than 12 months after the filing date of the provisional application (in which the basic filing fee was timely filed) unless the benefit of the provisional application has been restored (see 37 CFR 1.78(b) and subsection II, below); and in the later-filed application, the intermediate application must be clearly identified as claiming the benefit of the provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e). See also MPEP § 211.01(b), subsection II. Design applications may not claim the benefit of a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e). See 35 U.S.C. 172. Thus, where a design patent application claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 to an intermediate nonprovisional utility patent application that directly claims the benefit of a provisional application, the design application cannot claim the benefit of the filing date of the provisional application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_20bf9_3b5","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_qrivn46l"},{"id":"pb_x3qqijqc","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_x3qqijqc","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"II. RESTORING THE BENEFIT OF A PROVISIONAL APPLICATION","rendered_text_plain":"II. RESTORING THE BENEFIT OF A PROVISIONAL APPLICATION","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_qrivn46l/b.4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"II. RESTORING THE BENEFIT OF A PROVISIONAL APPLICATION","host_section_id":"se_qrivn46l"},{"id":"pb_taxrgjen","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_taxrgjen","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    Effective December 18, 2013, title II of the Patent\n Law Treaties Implementation Act (PLTIA) provides for restoration of the right to\n claim benefit of a provisional application filed after the expiration of the\n twelve-month period in 35 U.S.C. 119(e). If a\n nonprovisional application or an international application designating the United\n States has a filing date which is after the expiration of the twelve-month period\n but within two months from the expiration of the period, the benefit of the\n provisional application may be restored under PCT Rule\n 26bis.3 for an international application,\n or upon petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b), if the delay\n in filing the nonprovisional application or the international application was\n unintentional. Thus, an application may now validly claim the benefit of a\n provisional application filed up to fourteen months earlier. As a result of the\n implementation of title I of the PLTIA, 37 CFR 1.78(a) and\n (b) were amended effective May 13, 2015, to provide that a\n petition filed on or after May 13, 2015 to restore the benefit of a provisional\n application must be filed in the subsequent application, and to clarify that the\n subsequent application is the application required to be filed within the period\n set forth in 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1)(i). For\n purposes of 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1)(ii), the\n subsequent application may be a nonprovisional application or an international\n application designating the United States. Where a petition under\n 37 CFR 1.78(b) is required in an international application\n that was not filed in the United States Receiving Office and is not a\n nonprovisional application, then the petition may be filed in the earliest\n nonprovisional application that claims benefit under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, or 365(c) to\n the international application and will be treated as being filed in the\n international application. See 37 CFR 1.78(i).\n

    A petition under 37 CFR\n 1.78(b) requires:\n

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As a result of the implementation of title I of the PLTIA, 37 CFR 1.78(a) and (b) were amended effective May 13, 2015, to provide that a petition filed on or after May 13, 2015 to restore the benefit of a provisional application must be filed in the subsequent application, and to clarify that the subsequent application is the application required to be filed within the period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1)(i). For purposes of 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1)(ii), the subsequent application may be a nonprovisional application or an international application designating the United States. Where a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) is required in an international application that was not filed in the United States Receiving Office and is not a nonprovisional application, then the petition may be filed in the earliest nonprovisional application that claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, or 365(c) to the international application and will be treated as being filed in the international application. 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  • (A) the reference required by 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the\n prior-filed provisional application, which must be included in application\n data sheet (unless previously submitted in an application data sheet);\n
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  • (B) the petition fee as set forth in\n 37 CFR 1.17(m); and \n
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  • (C) a statement that the delay in filing the\n nonprovisional application or international application designating the\n United States within the twelve-month period set forth in 37 CFR\n 1.78(a)(1)(i) was unintentional.\n
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    The Director may require additional information\n where there is a question whether the delay was unintentional. \n

    If the reference required by 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the prior-filed\n provisional application is not made in the subsequent application within the\n period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78(a)(4), a petition\n to accept an unintentionally delayed claim under 37 CFR\n 1.78(c) must also be filed. See MPEP §\n 211.04 for a discussion of the requirements for a\n petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim under 37 CFR\n 1.78(c). \n

    If a petition under 37 CFR\n 1.78(b) to restore benefit of a provisional application is\n granted, a further petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) is not required\n in an application entitled to claim benefit under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, or 365(c) of\n the subsequent application (i.e., the application required to be filed within the\n period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1)(i)) for\n which benefit of the provisional application was restored. A copy of the decision\n granting the petition should be filed with any application that claims the benefit\n of the subsequent application and the provisional application to facilitate\n recognition of the benefit claim to the provisional application.\n

    Use form paragraphs 2.09 and\n 2.11.01 to indicate that the later-filed\n application must be filed not later than 12 months after the filing date of the\n provisional application for which a benefit is sought unless the benefit of the\n provisional application has been restored (37 CFR\n 1.78(b)).\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"The Director may require additional information where there is a question whether the delay was unintentional. If the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the prior-filed provisional application is not made in the subsequent application within the period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78(a)(4), a petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim under 37 CFR 1.78(c) must also be filed. See MPEP § 211.04 for a discussion of the requirements for a petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim under 37 CFR 1.78(c). If a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) to restore benefit of a provisional application is granted, a further petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) is not required in an application entitled to claim benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, or 365(c) of the subsequent application (i.e., the application required to be filed within the period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78(a)(1)(i)) for which benefit of the provisional application was restored. A copy of the decision granting the petition should be filed with any application that claims the benefit of the subsequent application and the provisional application to facilitate recognition of the benefit claim to the provisional application. Use form paragraphs 2.09 and 2.11.01 to indicate that the later-filed application must be filed not later than 12 months after the filing date of the provisional application for which a benefit is sought unless the benefit of the provisional application has been restored (37 CFR 1.78(b)).","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d24b86_2725f_295","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_qrivn46l"},{"id":"st_krkb3fio","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_krkb3fio","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.78","subsection_path":["a","4"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.78(a)(4)"},{"id":"st_ohbnmvzu","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_ohbnmvzu","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.78","subsection_path":["c"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.78(c)"},{"id":"fp_rx5lvigm","node_type":"form_paragraph","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/fp_rx5lvigm","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"fp2.11.01","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!fp_2_11_01","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!fp_2_11_01","form_paragraph_number":"2.11.01","title":"Application Must Be Filed Within 12 Months From the Provisional Application Unless Petition Granted","body_html":"

    This application is claiming the benefit of provisional application No.\n [1] under 35\n U.S.C. 119(e). However, this application was not filed within twelve\n months from the filing date of the provisional application, and there is no indication of an\n intermediate nonprovisional application or international application designating the United\n States that is directly claiming the benefit of the provisional application and filed within\n 12 months of the filing date of the provisional application. In addition, no petition under 37\n CFR 1.78(b) or request under PCT Rule 26bis.3 to restore the benefit of the\n provisional application has been granted.\n

    Applicant is required to delete the claim to the benefit of the\n prior-filed provisional application, unless applicant can establish that this application, or\n an intermediate nonprovisional application or international application designating the United\n States, was filed within 12 months of the filing date of the provisional application. See 35\n U.S.C. 119(e)(3). Alternatively, applicant may wish to file a petition to restore the benefit\n of the provisional application under 37 CFR 1.78 in the subsequent nonprovisional application\n or international application designating the United States if the subsequent application was\n filed within two months from the expiration of the twelve-month period and the delay was\n unintentional. A petition under 37 CFR 1.78(b) to restore the benefit of the provisional\n application must include: (1) the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to\n the prior-filed provisional application (unless previously submitted); (2) the petition fee\n set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(m); and (3) a statement that the delay in filing the subsequent\n nonprovisional application or international application designating the United States within\n the twelve-month period was unintentional. A petition to restore the benefit of a provisional\n application must be filed in the subsequent application. The Director may require additional\n information where there is a question whether the delay was unintentional. The petition should\n be addressed to: Mail Stop Petition, Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria,\n Virginia 22313-1450. \n

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    When a later-filed application is claiming the\n benefit of a prior-filed nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c), the later-filed application must be copending with\n the prior application or with an intermediate nonprovisional application similarly\n entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior application. Copendency is\n defined in the clause which requires that the later-filed application must be\n filed before: (A) the patenting of the prior application; (B) the abandonment of\n the prior application; or (C) the termination of proceedings in the prior\n application. If the prior application issues as a patent, it is sufficient for the\n later-filed application to be copending with it if the later-filed application is\n filed on the same date, or before the date that the patent issues on the prior\n application. See Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., 826 F.3d 1357,\n 1359, 119 USPQ2d 1083, 1084 (Fed. Cir. 2016), holding that a child application was\n entitled to the benefit of a parent application where the child application was\n filed on the same day that a patent issued on the parent application. Patents\n issue shortly after the payment of the issue fee. As a result, applicants have a\n limited time, after the payment of the issue fee, to file continuing applications.\n The best practice is for applicants to file continuing applications before the\n payment of the issue fee.\n

    If the prior application is abandoned, the\n later-filed application must be filed before the abandonment in order for it to be\n copending with the prior application. The term “abandoned,” refers to abandonment\n for failure to prosecute (MPEP § 711.02), express\n abandonment (MPEP §\n 711.01), abandonment for failure to pay the issue fee\n (37 CFR\n 1.316), and abandonment for failure to notify the Office of\n a foreign filing after filing a nonpublication request under 35 U.S.C.\n 122(b)(2)(B)(iii) (MPEP § 1124). The expression\n “termination of proceedings” includes the situations when an application is\n abandoned or when a patent has been issued, and hence this expression is the\n broadest of the three copendency definitions.\n

    After a decision by the Court of Appeals for the\n Federal Circuit in which the rejection of all claims is affirmed, the proceeding\n is terminated when the mandate is issued by the court. There are several other\n situations in which proceedings are terminated as is explained in\n MPEP §\n 711.02(c).\n

    When proceedings in an application are terminated,\n the application is treated in the same manner as an abandoned application, and the\n term “abandoned application” may be used broadly to include such applications.\n

    The term “continuity” is used to express the\n relationship of copendency of the same subject matter in two different\n applications naming the same inventor or at least one joint inventor in common.\n The later-filed application may be referred to as a continuing application when\n the prior application is not a provisional application. Continuing applications\n include divisional, continuation, and continuation-in-part applications. The\n statute is so worded that the prior application may disclose more than the\n later-filed application, or the later-filed application may disclose more than the\n prior application, and in either case the later-filed application is entitled to\n the benefit of the filing date of the prior application as to the common subject\n matter disclosed in compliance with 35 U.S.C. 112(a), except for\n the best mode requirement.\n

    A later-filed application which is not copending\n with the prior application (which includes those called “substitute” applications\n as set forth in MPEP\n § 201.02) is not entitled to the benefit of the filing\n date of the prior application. Therefore, prior art against the claims of the\n later-filed application is determined based on the filing date of the later-filed\n application. An applicant should not refer to such prior application(s) in an\n application data sheet (see 37 CFR 1.76) and is not\n required to refer to the prior application in the specification of the later-filed\n application, but is required to otherwise call the examiner’s attention to the\n prior application if it or its contents or prosecution is material to\n patentability of the later-filed application as defined in 37 CFR\n 1.56(b).\n

    Use form paragraphs 2.09 and\n 2.11 to\n indicate the benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 120,\n 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is improper because there is no copendency between\n the applications.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"When a later-filed application is claiming the benefit of a prior-filed nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c), the later-filed application must be copending with the prior application or with an intermediate nonprovisional application similarly entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior application. Copendency is defined in the clause which requires that the later-filed application must be filed before: (A) the patenting of the prior application; (B) the abandonment of the prior application; or (C) the termination of proceedings in the prior application. If the prior application issues as a patent, it is sufficient for the later-filed application to be copending with it if the later-filed application is filed on the same date, or before the date that the patent issues on the prior application. See Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., 826 F.3d 1357, 1359, 119 USPQ2d 1083, 1084 (Fed. Cir. 2016), holding that a child application was entitled to the benefit of a parent application where the child application was filed on the same day that a patent issued on the parent application. Patents issue shortly after the payment of the issue fee. As a result, applicants have a limited time, after the payment of the issue fee, to file continuing applications. The best practice is for applicants to file continuing applications before the payment of the issue fee. If the prior application is abandoned, the later-filed application must be filed before the abandonment in order for it to be copending with the prior application. The term “abandoned,” refers to abandonment for failure to prosecute (MPEP § 711.02), express abandonment (MPEP § 711.01), abandonment for failure to pay the issue fee (37 CFR 1.316), and abandonment for failure to notify the Office of a foreign filing after filing a nonpublication request under 35 U.S.C. 122(b)(2)(B)(iii) (MPEP § 1124). The expression “termination of proceedings” includes the situations when an application is abandoned or when a patent has been issued, and hence this expression is the broadest of the three copendency definitions. After a decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in which the rejection of all claims is affirmed, the proceeding is terminated when the mandate is issued by the court. There are several other situations in which proceedings are terminated as is explained in MPEP § 711.02(c). When proceedings in an application are terminated, the application is treated in the same manner as an abandoned application, and the term “abandoned application” may be used broadly to include such applications. The term “continuity” is used to express the relationship of copendency of the same subject matter in two different applications naming the same inventor or at least one joint inventor in common. The later-filed application may be referred to as a continuing application when the prior application is not a provisional application. Continuing applications include divisional, continuation, and continuation-in-part applications. The statute is so worded that the prior application may disclose more than the later-filed application, or the later-filed application may disclose more than the prior application, and in either case the later-filed application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior application as to the common subject matter disclosed in compliance with 35 U.S.C. 112(a), except for the best mode requirement. A later-filed application which is not copending with the prior application (which includes those called “substitute” applications as set forth in MPEP § 201.02) is not entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior application. Therefore, prior art against the claims of the later-filed application is determined based on the filing date of the later-filed application. An applicant should not refer to such prior application(s) in an application data sheet (see 37 CFR 1.76) and is not required to refer to the prior application in the specification of the later-filed application, but is required to otherwise call the examiner’s attention to the prior application if it or its contents or prosecution is material to patentability of the later-filed application as defined in 37 CFR 1.56(b). Use form paragraphs 2.09 and 2.11 to indicate the benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) is improper because there is no copendency between the applications.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_20cc7_18b","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_3k6wvl4g"},{"id":"cs_qn3pqm46","node_type":"case","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/cs_qn3pqm46","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., 826 F.3d 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2016)","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"short_name":"Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp.","canonical_citation":"Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., 826 F.3d 1357, 119 USPQ2d 1083 (Fed. 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    This application is claiming the benefit of prior-filed application No.\n [1] under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c).\n Copendency between the current application and the prior application is required. Since the\n applications are not copending, the benefit claim to the prior-filed application is improper.\n Applicant is required to delete the claim to the benefit of the prior-filed application,\n unless applicant can establish copendency between the applications.\n

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    See MPEP § 711.03(c), subsection II,\n for a discussion of petitions to revive an abandoned application to provide\n copendency between the abandoned application and a subsequently filed\n application.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"See MPEP § 711.03(c), subsection II, for a discussion of petitions to revive an abandoned application to provide copendency between the abandoned application and a subsequently filed application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_p_299b2_18efa_2da","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_3k6wvl4g"},{"id":"pb_5qjazqu7","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_5qjazqu7","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"II. BENEFIT CLAIMS TO MULTIPLE PRIOR APPLICATIONS","rendered_text_plain":"II. BENEFIT CLAIMS TO MULTIPLE PRIOR APPLICATIONS","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_3k6wvl4g/b.4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"II. BENEFIT CLAIMS TO MULTIPLE PRIOR APPLICATIONS","host_section_id":"se_3k6wvl4g"},{"id":"pb_jsitielq","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_jsitielq","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    Sometimes a pending application is one of a series\n of applications wherein the pending application is not copending with the first\n filed application but is copending with an intermediate application entitled to\n the benefit of the filing date of the first application. If applicant wishes that\n the pending application have the benefit of the filing date of the first filed\n application, applicant must, besides making reference to the intermediate\n application, also make reference to the first application. See Sticker\n Indus. Supply Corp. v. Blaw-Knox Co., 405 F.2d 90, 160 USPQ 177 (7th\n Cir. 1968) and Hovlid v. Asari, 305 F.2d 747, 134 USPQ 162 (9th\n Cir. 1962). The reference to the prior applications must identify all\n of the prior applications and indicate the relationship (i.e., continuation,\n divisional, or continuation-in-part) between each nonprovisional application in\n order to establish copendency throughout the entire chain of prior applications.\n Appropriate references must be made in each intermediate application in the chain\n of prior applications. A specific reference is required to each prior-filed\n application in a chain of applications and cannot be incorporated by reference\n from a prior application. See Droplets, Inc. v. E*TRADE Bank,\n 887 F.3d 1309, 126 USPQ2d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2018)(although the patent includes a\n proper benefit claim to an immediate prior parent application and incorporated the\n immediate prior parent by reference, the patent did not itself claim benefit to\n each prior-filed application in the priority chain. That another patent that is\n incorporated by reference in its entirety in the reviewed patent makes its own\n specific reference to a prior application does not substitute for making the\n necessary specific reference in the reviewed patent or application. As only the\n filing date of the alleged grandparent application was within 12 months of a prior\n provisional application, the claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) made in the\n patent was not appropriate because the patent under review did not make a claim to\n the alleged grandparent application). Cf. Nat. Alts. Int’l, Inc. v.\n Iancu, 904 F.3d 1375, 1380, 128 USPQ2d 1235, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 2018).\n See MPEP § 211.02 for guidance regarding properly\n referencing prior applications.\n

    There is no limit to the number of prior\n applications through which a chain of copendency may be traced to obtain the\n benefit of the filing date of the earliest of a chain of prior copending\n applications. See In re Henriksen, 399 F2.d 253, 158 USPQ 224\n (CCPA 1968). But see MPEP § 2190 (prosecution\n laches).\n

    A nonprovisional application that directly claims\n the benefit of a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) must be filed\n within 12 months from the filing date of the provisional application unless the\n benefit of the provisional application has been restored. See 37 CFR\n 1.78(b) and MPEP §\n 211.01(a), subsection II. Although an application that\n itself directly claims the benefit of a provisional application is not required to\n specify the relationship to the provisional application, if the instant\n nonprovisional application is not filed within the 12 month period, but claims the\n benefit of an intermediate nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 120 that was filed within 12 months from the filing date of\n the provisional application and claimed the benefit of the provisional\n application, the intermediate application must be clearly identified as claiming\n the benefit of the provisional application so that the Office can determine\n whether the intermediate nonprovisional application was filed within 12 months of\n the provisional application and thus, whether the claim is proper. Where the\n benefit of more than one provisional application is being claimed, the\n intermediate nonprovisional application(s) claiming the benefit of each\n provisional application must be indicated. See MPEP §\n 211.02 for guidance regarding properly referencing prior\n applications.\n

    If a benefit claim to a provisional application is\n submitted without an indication that an intermediate application directly claims\n the benefit of the provisional application and the instant nonprovisional\n application is not filed within the 12 month period (or 14 month period if the\n benefit of the provisional application has been restored pursuant to\n 37 CFR 1.78(b)) or the relationship between each\n nonprovisional application is not indicated, the Office will not recognize such\n benefit claim and will not include the benefit claim on the filing receipt.\n Therefore, a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(c) and the\n petition fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(m) will be\n required if the intermediate application and the relationship of each\n nonprovisional application are not indicated within the period set forth in\n 37 CFR\n 1.78. See MPEP §\n 201.04.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Sometimes a pending application is one of a series of applications wherein the pending application is not copending with the first filed application but is copending with an intermediate application entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the first application. If applicant wishes that the pending application have the benefit of the filing date of the first filed application, applicant must, besides making reference to the intermediate application, also make reference to the first application. See Sticker Indus. Supply Corp. v. Blaw-Knox Co., 405 F.2d 90, 160 USPQ 177 (7th Cir. 1968) and Hovlid v. Asari, 305 F.2d 747, 134 USPQ 162 (9th Cir. 1962). The reference to the prior applications must identify all of the prior applications and indicate the relationship (i.e., continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) between each nonprovisional application in order to establish copendency throughout the entire chain of prior applications. Appropriate references must be made in each intermediate application in the chain of prior applications. A specific reference is required to each prior-filed application in a chain of applications and cannot be incorporated by reference from a prior application. See Droplets, Inc. v. E*TRADE Bank, 887 F.3d 1309, 126 USPQ2d 1317 (Fed. Cir. 2018)(although the patent includes a proper benefit claim to an immediate prior parent application and incorporated the immediate prior parent by reference, the patent did not itself claim benefit to each prior-filed application in the priority chain. That another patent that is incorporated by reference in its entirety in the reviewed patent makes its own specific reference to a prior application does not substitute for making the necessary specific reference in the reviewed patent or application. As only the filing date of the alleged grandparent application was within 12 months of a prior provisional application, the claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) made in the patent was not appropriate because the patent under review did not make a claim to the alleged grandparent application). Cf. Nat. Alts. Int’l, Inc. v. Iancu, 904 F.3d 1375, 1380, 128 USPQ2d 1235, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 2018). See MPEP § 211.02 for guidance regarding properly referencing prior applications. There is no limit to the number of prior applications through which a chain of copendency may be traced to obtain the benefit of the filing date of the earliest of a chain of prior copending applications. See In re Henriksen, 399 F2.d 253, 158 USPQ 224 (CCPA 1968). But see MPEP § 2190 (prosecution laches). A nonprovisional application that directly claims the benefit of a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) must be filed within 12 months from the filing date of the provisional application unless the benefit of the provisional application has been restored. See 37 CFR 1.78(b) and MPEP § 211.01(a), subsection II. Although an application that itself directly claims the benefit of a provisional application is not required to specify the relationship to the provisional application, if the instant nonprovisional application is not filed within the 12 month period, but claims the benefit of an intermediate nonprovisional application under 35 U.S.C. 120 that was filed within 12 months from the filing date of the provisional application and claimed the benefit of the provisional application, the intermediate application must be clearly identified as claiming the benefit of the provisional application so that the Office can determine whether the intermediate nonprovisional application was filed within 12 months of the provisional application and thus, whether the claim is proper. Where the benefit of more than one provisional application is being claimed, the intermediate nonprovisional application(s) claiming the benefit of each provisional application must be indicated. See MPEP § 211.02 for guidance regarding properly referencing prior applications. If a benefit claim to a provisional application is submitted without an indication that an intermediate application directly claims the benefit of the provisional application and the instant nonprovisional application is not filed within the 12 month period (or 14 month period if the benefit of the provisional application has been restored pursuant to 37 CFR 1.78(b)) or the relationship between each nonprovisional application is not indicated, the Office will not recognize such benefit claim and will not include the benefit claim on the filing receipt. Therefore, a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(c) and the petition fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(m) will be required if the intermediate application and the relationship of each nonprovisional application are not indicated within the period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78. See MPEP § 201.04.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_211b6_1c0","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_3k6wvl4g"},{"id":"cs_hs6vhy36","node_type":"case","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/cs_hs6vhy36","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"Sticker Indus. Supply Corp. v. Blaw-Knox Co., 405 F.2d 90 (7th Cir. 1968)","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"short_name":"Sticker Indus. Supply Corp. v. Blaw-Knox Co.","canonical_citation":"Sticker Indus. Supply Corp. v. 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    Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 365(c), a regular\n national application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) and\n 37 CFR\n 1.53(b) may claim the benefit of the filing date of an\n international application which designates the United States without completing the\n requirements for entering the national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371.\n See MPEP §§\n 1895 and 1895.01. Thus, rather than\n submitting a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371, applicant may file\n a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part of an international (PCT)\n application under 35 U.S.C. 111(a). Such\n applications are often referred to as “bypass” applications. To claim the benefit of\n the filing date of an international application, the international application must\n designate the United States and be entitled to a filing date in accordance with\n PCT Article\n 11, and the later-filed application must be filed during the\n pendency (e.g., prior to the abandonment) of the international application.\n

    The ability to take such action is based on provisions\n of the United States patent law. 35 U.S.C. 363 provides that “[a]n\n international application designating the United States shall have the effect, from\n its international filing date under article 11 of the treaty, of a national\n application for patent regularly filed in the Patent and Trademark Office.”\n 35 U.S.C.\n 371(d) indicates that failure to timely comply with the\n requirements of 35\n U.S.C. 371(c) “shall be regarded as abandonment of the\n application by the parties thereof.” It is therefore clear that an international\n application which designates the United States has the effect of a pending U.S.\n application from the international application filing date until its abandonment as\n to the United States. The first sentence of 35 U.S.C. 365(c) specifically\n provides that “[i]n accordance with the conditions and requirements of section\n 120,... a national application shall be entitled to the\n benefit of the filing date of a prior international application designating the\n United States.” The condition of 35 U.S.C. 120 relating to the\n time of filing requires the later application to be “filed before the patenting or\n abandonment of or termination of proceedings on the first application....” \n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 365(c), a regular national application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) and 37 CFR 1.53(b) may claim the benefit of the filing date of an international application which designates the United States without completing the requirements for entering the national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371. See MPEP §§ 1895 and 1895.01. Thus, rather than submitting a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371, applicant may file a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part of an international (PCT) application under 35 U.S.C. 111(a). Such applications are often referred to as “bypass” applications. To claim the benefit of the filing date of an international application, the international application must designate the United States and be entitled to a filing date in accordance with PCT Article 11, and the later-filed application must be filed during the pendency (e.g., prior to the abandonment) of the international application. The ability to take such action is based on provisions of the United States patent law. 35 U.S.C. 363 provides that “[a]n international application designating the United States shall have the effect, from its international filing date under article 11 of the treaty, of a national application for patent regularly filed in the Patent and Trademark Office.” 35 U.S.C. 371(d) indicates that failure to timely comply with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 371(c) “shall be regarded as abandonment of the application by the parties thereof.” It is therefore clear that an international application which designates the United States has the effect of a pending U.S. application from the international application filing date until its abandonment as to the United States. The first sentence of 35 U.S.C. 365(c) specifically provides that “[i]n accordance with the conditions and requirements of section 120,... a national application shall be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of a prior international application designating the United States.” The condition of 35 U.S.C. 120 relating to the time of filing requires the later application to be “filed before the patenting or abandonment of or termination of proceedings on the first application....”","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_22ec3_2cb","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_laeslqzz"},{"id":"st_czghmvaz","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_czghmvaz","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"371","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 371"},{"id":"st_yp2w2f3y","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_yp2w2f3y","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"363","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 363"},{"id":"st_zgerpdne","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_zgerpdne","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"371","subsection_path":["d"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 371(d)"},{"id":"st_t4whijsh","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_t4whijsh","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"371","subsection_path":["c"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 371(c)"},{"id":"se_cley6tn6","node_type":"section","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/se_cley6tn6","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_newsection_21101d","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_01_d","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_01_d","section_number":"211.01(d)","chapter":"200","depth":2,"title":"Claiming the Benefit of an International Design Application Designating the United States","revision_tag":"R-07.2015","parent_section_id":"se_udlqi35s","children_ids":["pb_mxtrxmxq"]},{"id":"pb_mxtrxmxq","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_mxtrxmxq","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    Pursuant to 35 U.S.C.\n 386(c), in accordance with the conditions and requirements of\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, a nonprovisional application is entitled to the benefit of\n a prior international design application designating the United States. See\n MPEP\n §§ 211 and 2920.05(e). 37 CFR 1.78(j) provides that\n benefit under 35 U.S.C. 386(c) with respect to\n an international design application can only be claimed in nonprovisional\n applications, international applications, and international design applications filed\n on or after May 13, 2015, and patents issuing thereon. To obtain benefit of the\n filing date of a prior international design application designating the United\n States, the international design application must be entitled to a filing date in\n accordance with 37 CFR 1.1023. See\n 37 CFR\n 1.78(d)(1)(ii). \n

    See MPEP §\n 2920.05(e) for additional information pertaining to benefit\n claims under 35 U.S.C. 386(c).\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 386(c), in accordance with the conditions and requirements of 35 U.S.C. 120, a nonprovisional application is entitled to the benefit of a prior international design application designating the United States. See MPEP §§ 211 and 2920.05(e). 37 CFR 1.78(j) provides that benefit under 35 U.S.C. 386(c) with respect to an international design application can only be claimed in nonprovisional applications, international applications, and international design applications filed on or after May 13, 2015, and patents issuing thereon. To obtain benefit of the filing date of a prior international design application designating the United States, the international design application must be entitled to a filing date in accordance with 37 CFR 1.1023. See 37 CFR 1.78(d)(1)(ii). See MPEP § 2920.05(e) for additional information pertaining to benefit claims under 35 U.S.C. 386(c).","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d24b24_20a7b_e1","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_cley6tn6"},{"id":"st_6s2vo56k","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_6s2vo56k","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.78","subsection_path":["j"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.78(j)"},{"id":"se_knqbxdtr","node_type":"section","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/se_knqbxdtr","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_22f37_244","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_02","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_02","section_number":"211.02","chapter":"200","depth":1,"title":"Reference to Prior Application(s)","revision_tag":"R-07.2022","parent_section_id":"se_rb6cntom","children_ids":["pb_cddowabx","pb_ke26m3wd","fp_maznadfk","pb_2u55n7py","pb_pxw76u6k","pb_upa5xarb","pb_fmc4hlub","pb_tjnt5pzf","se_y3iztibu"]},{"id":"pb_cddowabx","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_cddowabx","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"I. APPLICATION DATA SHEET","rendered_text_plain":"I. APPLICATION DATA SHEET","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_knqbxdtr/b.0","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"I. APPLICATION DATA SHEET","host_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr"},{"id":"pb_ke26m3wd","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_ke26m3wd","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    Both 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and\n 120 include the requirement that the later-filed application\n must contain a specific reference to the prior application. \n

    For applications filed on or after September 16, 2012,\n the specific reference to the prior application must be included in an application\n data sheet (37\n CFR 1.76). For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012,\n the specific reference to the prior application must be in an application data sheet\n (37 CFR\n 1.76(a)) and/or in the first sentence(s) of the specification\n following the title, although the Office prefers the use of an application data\n sheet. If applicant is claiming the benefit of multiple prior applications, and the\n reference to the prior applications is in the specification, the reference may be in\n a continuous string of multiple sentences at the beginning of the specification. The\n multiple sentences must begin as the first sentence after the title, and any\n additional sentence(s) including a benefit claim must follow the first sentence and\n not be separated from the first sentence by any other sentence not making a benefit\n claim. If the specific reference is only contained in the application data sheet,\n then the benefit claim information will be included on the front page of any patent\n or patent application publication, but will not be included in the first sentence(s)\n of the specification. \n

    For applications filed on or after September 21, 2004,\n a claim under 35\n U.S.C. 119(e) or 120 and 37 CFR 1.78\n for benefit of a prior-filed provisional application, nonprovisional application,\n international application designating the United States, or international design\n application designating the United States that was present on the filing date of the\n continuation or divisional application, or the nonprovisional application claiming\n benefit of a prior-filed provisional application, is considered an incorporation by\n reference of the prior-filed application as to inadvertently omitted material,\n subject to the conditions and requirements of 37 CFR\n 1.57(b). The purpose of 37 CFR\n 1.57(b) is to provide a safeguard for applicants when all or a\n portion of the specification and/or drawing(s) is (are) inadvertently omitted from an\n application. See MPEP § 201.06 and\n 217. However, applicants are encouraged to provide in the\n specification an explicit incorporation by reference statement to the prior-filed\n application(s) for which benefit is claimed under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or\n 120 if applicants do not wish the incorporation by reference\n to be limited to inadvertently omitted material pursuant to 37 CFR\n 1.57(b). See 37 CFR 1.57(c). See also\n MPEP\n §§ 217 and MPEP § 608.01(p).\n

    When a benefit claim is submitted after the filing of\n an application, and the later-filed application as filed did not incorporate the\n prior-filed application by reference, applicant cannot add an incorporation by\n reference statement of the prior application. An incorporation by reference statement\n added after an application’s filing date is not effective because no new matter can\n be added to an application after its filing date (see 35 U.S.C.\n 132(a)). See Dart Indus. v. Banner, 636 F.2d\n 684, 207 USPQ 273 (C.A.D.C. 1980). See also 37 CFR\n 1.57(b).\n

    If an applicant includes a benefit claim elsewhere in\n the application but not in the manner specified by 37 CFR 1.78\n (e.g., if the claim is not present in the proper place but is included in an oath or\n declaration or the application transmittal letter) within the time period set forth\n in 37 CFR\n 1.78, the Office will not require a petition under\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 and the petition fee under 37 CFR\n 1.17(m) to correct the claim if the information concerning the\n claim was recognized by the Office as shown by its inclusion on the first filing\n receipt. If, however, a claim is not included in an ADS in compliance with\n 37 CFR\n 1.76 (or for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012 in\n the first sentence(s) of the specification or in an ADS in compliance with\n pre-AIA 37 CFR\n 1.76) and is not recognized by the Office as shown by its\n absence on the first filing receipt, the Office will require a petition under\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 and the petition fee to correct the claim if the\n correction is sought after expiration of the time period set in 37 CFR\n 1.78. The Office may not recognize any benefit claim where, for\n example, there is no indication of the relationship between the nonprovisional\n applications, or no indication of an intermediate nonprovisional application that is\n directly claiming the benefit of a provisional application. See subsection II, below.\n Even if the Office has recognized a benefit claim by entering it into the Office’s\n database and including it on any of applicant’s filing receipts, the benefit claim is\n not a proper benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 unless the reference\n is included in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76 or, for applications\n filed prior to September 16, 2012, included in an ADS in compliance with\n pre-AIA 37 CFR\n 1.76 or in the first sentence(s) of the specification, and all\n other requirements are met. \n

    In view of this requirement for a specific reference in\n the later-filed application, the right to rely on a prior application may be waived\n by an applicant if a proper reference to the prior application is not included in the\n later-filed application. If the examiner is aware of the fact that an application may\n be entitled to claim the benefit of a prior application or the applicant fails to\n submit the reference to the prior application in compliance with 37 CFR 1.78\n (e.g., the reference was submitted in the transmittal letter but not in an ADS in\n compliance with 37 CFR 1.76 (or for applications filed prior to September 16,\n 2012 in the first sentence(s) of the specification or an ADS in compliance with\n pre-AIA 37 CFR\n 1.76)), the examiner should merely call attention to this in an\n Office action by using the wording of form paragraph 2.15.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Both 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 120 include the requirement that the later-filed application must contain a specific reference to the prior application. For applications filed on or after September 16, 2012, the specific reference to the prior application must be included in an application data sheet (37 CFR 1.76). For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, the specific reference to the prior application must be in an application data sheet (37 CFR 1.76(a)) and/or in the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title, although the Office prefers the use of an application data sheet. If applicant is claiming the benefit of multiple prior applications, and the reference to the prior applications is in the specification, the reference may be in a continuous string of multiple sentences at the beginning of the specification. The multiple sentences must begin as the first sentence after the title, and any additional sentence(s) including a benefit claim must follow the first sentence and not be separated from the first sentence by any other sentence not making a benefit claim. If the specific reference is only contained in the application data sheet, then the benefit claim information will be included on the front page of any patent or patent application publication, but will not be included in the first sentence(s) of the specification. For applications filed on or after September 21, 2004, a claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 for benefit of a prior-filed provisional application, nonprovisional application, international application designating the United States, or international design application designating the United States that was present on the filing date of the continuation or divisional application, or the nonprovisional application claiming benefit of a prior-filed provisional application, is considered an incorporation by reference of the prior-filed application as to inadvertently omitted material, subject to the conditions and requirements of 37 CFR 1.57(b). The purpose of 37 CFR 1.57(b) is to provide a safeguard for applicants when all or a portion of the specification and/or drawing(s) is (are) inadvertently omitted from an application. See MPEP § 201.06 and 217. However, applicants are encouraged to provide in the specification an explicit incorporation by reference statement to the prior-filed application(s) for which benefit is claimed under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or 120 if applicants do not wish the incorporation by reference to be limited to inadvertently omitted material pursuant to 37 CFR 1.57(b). See 37 CFR 1.57(c). See also MPEP §§ 217 and MPEP § 608.01(p). When a benefit claim is submitted after the filing of an application, and the later-filed application as filed did not incorporate the prior-filed application by reference, applicant cannot add an incorporation by reference statement of the prior application. An incorporation by reference statement added after an application’s filing date is not effective because no new matter can be added to an application after its filing date (see 35 U.S.C. 132(a)). See Dart Indus. v. Banner, 636 F.2d 684, 207 USPQ 273 (C.A.D.C. 1980). See also 37 CFR 1.57(b). If an applicant includes a benefit claim elsewhere in the application but not in the manner specified by 37 CFR 1.78 (e.g., if the claim is not present in the proper place but is included in an oath or declaration or the application transmittal letter) within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78, the Office will not require a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and the petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m) to correct the claim if the information concerning the claim was recognized by the Office as shown by its inclusion on the first filing receipt. If, however, a claim is not included in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76 (or for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012 in the first sentence(s) of the specification or in an ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76) and is not recognized by the Office as shown by its absence on the first filing receipt, the Office will require a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and the petition fee to correct the claim if the correction is sought after expiration of the time period set in 37 CFR 1.78. The Office may not recognize any benefit claim where, for example, there is no indication of the relationship between the nonprovisional applications, or no indication of an intermediate nonprovisional application that is directly claiming the benefit of a provisional application. See subsection II, below. Even if the Office has recognized a benefit claim by entering it into the Office’s database and including it on any of applicant’s filing receipts, the benefit claim is not a proper benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 unless the reference is included in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76 or, for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, included in an ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76 or in the first sentence(s) of the specification, and all other requirements are met. In view of this requirement for a specific reference in the later-filed application, the right to rely on a prior application may be waived by an applicant if a proper reference to the prior application is not included in the later-filed application. If the examiner is aware of the fact that an application may be entitled to claim the benefit of a prior application or the applicant fails to submit the reference to the prior application in compliance with 37 CFR 1.78 (e.g., the reference was submitted in the transmittal letter but not in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76 (or for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012 in the first sentence(s) of the specification or an ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76)), the examiner should merely call attention to this in an Office action by using the wording of form paragraph 2.15.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_22f9a_31e","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr"},{"id":"st_bx7gdebl","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_bx7gdebl","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.76","subsection_path":["a"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.76(a)"},{"id":"st_o7ataaju","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_o7ataaju","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.57","subsection_path":["b"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.57(b)"},{"id":"st_scsrniyu","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_scsrniyu","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.57","subsection_path":["c"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.57(c)"},{"id":"st_kdelbabr","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_kdelbabr","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"132","subsection_path":["a"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 132(a)"},{"id":"cs_ynehk44h","node_type":"case","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/cs_ynehk44h","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"Dart Indus. v. Banner, 636 F.2d 684 (D.C. Cir. 1980)","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"short_name":"Dart Indus. v. Banner","canonical_citation":"Dart Indus. v. Banner, 636 F.2d 684, 207 USPQ 273 (D.C. Cir. 1980)","all_citations":["636 F.2d 684","207 USPQ 273"],"decision_year":1980,"court":"D.C. 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    This application makes reference to or appears to claim subject matter\n disclosed in Application No. [1], filed [2]. If applicant desires to\n claim the benefit of a prior-filed application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e),\n 120, 121, 365(c) or 386(c), the instant application must\n contain, or be amended to contain, a specific reference to the prior-filed application in\n compliance with 37 CFR\n 1.78. If the application was filed before September 16, 2012, the\n specific reference must be included in the first sentence(s) of the specification following\n the title or in an application data sheet (ADS) in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76; if\n the application was filed on or after September 16, 2012, the specific reference must be\n included in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76. For benefit claims under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c), the\n reference must include the relationship (i.e., continuation, divisional, or\n continuation-in-part) of the applications. \n

    If the instant application is a utility or plant application filed under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 111(a), the specific reference must be submitted during the pendency of\n the application and within the later of four months from the actual filing date of the\n application or sixteen months from the filing date of the prior application. If the\n application is a national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371, the specific reference must\n be submitted during the pendency of the application and within the later of four months from\n the date on which the national stage commenced under 35 U.S.C. 371(b) or (f), four months from\n the date of the initial submission under 35 U.S.C. 371 to enter the national stage,\n or sixteen months from the filing date of the prior application. See 37 CFR 1.78(a)(4)\n for benefit claims under 35\n U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78(d)(3) for benefit claims under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c). This\n time period is not extendable and a failure to submit the reference required by\n 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) and/or 120, where applicable, within this time\n period is considered a waiver of any benefit of such prior application(s) under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e), 120, 121,\n 365(c), and 386(c). A benefit claim filed after the\n required time period may be accepted if it is accompanied by a grantable petition to accept an\n unintentionally delayed benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) (see 37 CFR 1.78(c)) or\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) (see\n 37 CFR\n 1.78(e)). The petition must be accompanied by (1) the reference required\n by 35 U.S.C.\n 120 or 119(e) and by 37 CFR 1.78 to the prior application\n (unless previously submitted), (2) the petition fee under 37 CFR\n 1.17(m), and (3) a statement that the entire delay between the date the\n benefit claim was due under 37 CFR 1.78 and the date the claim was\n filed was unintentional. The Director may require additional information where there is a\n question whether the delay was unintentional. The petition should be addressed to: Mail Stop\n Petition, Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450.\n

    If the reference to the prior application was previously submitted within\n the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78 but was not included in the\n location in the application required by the rule (e.g., if the reference was submitted in an\n oath or declaration or the application transmittal letter), and the information concerning the\n benefit claim was recognized by the Office as shown by its inclusion on the first filing\n receipt, the petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and the petition fee under\n 37 CFR\n 1.17(m) are not required. Applicant is still required to submit the\n reference in compliance with 37 CFR 1.78 by filing an ADS in compliance\n with 37 CFR\n 1.76 with the reference (or, if the application was filed before\n September 16, 2012, by filing either an amendment to the first sentence(s) of the\n specification or an ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76). See\n MPEP §\n 211.02.\n

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    If the examiner is aware of a prior application, the\n examiner should note it in an Office action, as indicated above, but should not\n require the applicant to call attention to the prior application.\n

    For notations to be placed in the file history in the\n case of continuing applications, see MPEP §\n 202 and § 1302.09. \n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If the examiner is aware of a prior application, the examiner should note it in an Office action, as indicated above, but should not require the applicant to call attention to the prior application. For notations to be placed in the file history in the case of continuing applications, see MPEP § 202 and § 1302.09.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_23167_82","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr"},{"id":"pb_pxw76u6k","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_pxw76u6k","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"II. REFERENCE TO PRIOR NONPROVISIONAL APPLICATIONS","rendered_text_plain":"II. REFERENCE TO PRIOR NONPROVISIONAL APPLICATIONS","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_knqbxdtr/b.4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"II. REFERENCE TO PRIOR NONPROVISIONAL APPLICATIONS","host_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr"},{"id":"pb_upa5xarb","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_upa5xarb","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    Except for benefit claims to the prior application in a\n continued prosecution application (CPA), benefit claims under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), and\n 386(c) must identify the prior application by application\n number, by international application number and international filing date, or by\n international registration number and international filing date under\n 37 CFR\n 1.1023, and indicate the relationship between the applications.\n See 37 CFR\n 1.78. The relationship between the applications is whether the\n instant application is a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part of the\n prior nonprovisional application. For international design applications, the required\n reference can identify the nonprovisional application number instead of the\n international registration number and filing date under 37 CFR\n 1.1023 once the international design application becomes a\n nonprovisional application. Identifying the prior international design application by\n the nonprovisional application number is preferable to the Office. \n

    Where the reference to a prior nonprovisional\n application appears in the specification of an application as permitted for\n applications filed before September 16, 2012, an example of a proper benefit claim is\n “this application is a continuation of prior Application No. ---, filed ---.” A\n benefit claim that merely states that “this application claims the benefit of\n Application No. ---, filed ---” does not comply with 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 37 CFR 1.78, since the\n relationship between the applications is not stated. In addition, a benefit claim\n that merely states that “this application is a continuing application of Application\n No. ---, filed ---” does not comply with 35 U.S.C. 120 and\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 since the proper relationship, which includes the type of\n continuing (i.e., continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) application, is\n not stated.\n

    A request for a CPA filed under 37 CFR\n 1.53(d) (available only for design applications, but not\n international design applications) is itself the specific reference required by\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 to every application\n assigned the same application number identified in the request. (Note: The CPA is\n assigned the same application number as the prior application.) In a CPA, a specific\n reference in the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title, or in an\n application data sheet, to a prior application assigned the same application number\n is not required and may not be made. Any such reference should be deleted. No\n amendment in a CPA may delete the specific reference to the prior application\n assigned the same application number. A specific reference to an application not\n assigned the same application number, but relied on for benefit under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 is required. Cross\n references to other related applications not assigned the same application as the CPA\n may be made when appropriate.\n

    When a nonprovisional application (other than a CPA)\n filed on or after September 16, 2012 is entitled under 35 U.S.C.\n 120 to an earlier U.S. effective filing date, the reference\n must be included in an application data sheet. For applications filed prior to\n September 16, 2012, the benefit claim must appear either in the application data\n sheet, or as a statement in the first sentence(s) of the specification. An example of\n such a statement is “This is a divisional (or continuation, or continuation-in-part,\n as appropriate) application of Application No. ---, filed ---.” In the case of a\n design application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(b) as a divisional,\n continuation or continuation-in-part of a CPA, there should be only one reference to\n the series of applications assigned the same application number, with the filing date\n cited being that of the original non-continued application. See MPEP § 1504.20 for\n additional information pertaining to benefit claims in design applications.\n

    Where a nonprovisional application is claiming the\n benefit under 35\n U.S.C. 120 of a prior national stage application under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 371, the appropriate relationship must be indicated on an\n application data sheet for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012. For\n applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, the specific reference to the prior\n application must be in an application data sheet (pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76) and/or in\n the first sentence(s) specification. Where the reference to the prior-filed national\n stage application appears in the specification, a suitable reference would read “This\n application is a continuation of U.S. Application No. 08/---, which was the National\n Stage of International Application No. PCT/DE95/---, filed ---.”\n

    Any benefit claim that does not\n both identify a prior application by its application number\n and specify a relationship between the applications will\n not be considered to contain a specific reference to a prior application as required\n by 35 U.S.C.\n 120. Such benefit claim may not be recognized by the Office and\n may not be included on the filing receipt even if the claim appears in an application\n data sheet (for an application filed on or after September 16, 2012), or in the\n application data sheet or the first sentence(s) of the specification (for an\n application filed prior to September 16, 2012). As a result, publication of the\n application may not be scheduled on the basis of the prior application’s filing date.\n If the Office does not recognize a benefit claim under 35 U.S.C.\n 120 because it does not contain the required reference and the\n time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78 for submitting the\n required reference has expired, applicant must submit a petition under\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 and the petition fee set forth in 37 CFR\n 1.17(m) in order for the Office to accept the unintentionally\n delayed claim under 35 U.S.C. 120 because the\n application will not have been scheduled for publication on the basis of the prior\n application’s filing date. \n

    To specify the relationship between the applications,\n applicant must specify whether the application is a continuation, divisional, or\n continuation-in-part of the prior application. Note that the terms are exclusive. An\n application cannot be, for example, both a continuation and a divisional or a\n continuation and a continuation-in-part of the same application. Moreover, if the\n benefit of more than one nonprovisional application is claimed, then the relationship\n between each application (i.e., continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part)\n must be specified in order to establish copendency throughout the entire chain of\n prior-filed applications. For example, where the reference to a prior nonprovisional\n application appears in the specification of an application as permitted for\n applications filed before September 16, 2012, a statement that “this application\n claims the benefit of Application Nos. C, B, and A” or “this application is a\n continuing application of Application Nos. C, B, and A” is improper. Applicant\n instead must state, for example, that “this application is a continuation of\n Application No. C, filed ---, which is a continuation of Application No. B, filed\n ---, which is a continuation of Application No. A, filed ---.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Except for benefit claims to the prior application in a continued prosecution application (CPA), benefit claims under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), and 386(c) must identify the prior application by application number, by international application number and international filing date, or by international registration number and international filing date under 37 CFR 1.1023, and indicate the relationship between the applications. See 37 CFR 1.78. The relationship between the applications is whether the instant application is a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part of the prior nonprovisional application. For international design applications, the required reference can identify the nonprovisional application number instead of the international registration number and filing date under 37 CFR 1.1023 once the international design application becomes a nonprovisional application. Identifying the prior international design application by the nonprovisional application number is preferable to the Office. Where the reference to a prior nonprovisional application appears in the specification of an application as permitted for applications filed before September 16, 2012, an example of a proper benefit claim is “this application is a continuation of prior Application No. ---, filed ---.” A benefit claim that merely states that “this application claims the benefit of Application No. ---, filed ---” does not comply with 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78, since the relationship between the applications is not stated. In addition, a benefit claim that merely states that “this application is a continuing application of Application No. ---, filed ---” does not comply with 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 since the proper relationship, which includes the type of continuing (i.e., continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) application, is not stated. A request for a CPA filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d) (available only for design applications, but not international design applications) is itself the specific reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 to every application assigned the same application number identified in the request. (Note: The CPA is assigned the same application number as the prior application.) In a CPA, a specific reference in the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title, or in an application data sheet, to a prior application assigned the same application number is not required and may not be made. Any such reference should be deleted. No amendment in a CPA may delete the specific reference to the prior application assigned the same application number. A specific reference to an application not assigned the same application number, but relied on for benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 is required. Cross references to other related applications not assigned the same application as the CPA may be made when appropriate. When a nonprovisional application (other than a CPA) filed on or after September 16, 2012 is entitled under 35 U.S.C. 120 to an earlier U.S. effective filing date, the reference must be included in an application data sheet. For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, the benefit claim must appear either in the application data sheet, or as a statement in the first sentence(s) of the specification. An example of such a statement is “This is a divisional (or continuation, or continuation-in-part, as appropriate) application of Application No. ---, filed ---.” In the case of a design application filed under 37 CFR 1.53(b) as a divisional, continuation or continuation-in-part of a CPA, there should be only one reference to the series of applications assigned the same application number, with the filing date cited being that of the original non-continued application. See MPEP § 1504.20 for additional information pertaining to benefit claims in design applications. Where a nonprovisional application is claiming the benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 of a prior national stage application under 35 U.S.C. 371, the appropriate relationship must be indicated on an application data sheet for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012. For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, the specific reference to the prior application must be in an application data sheet (pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76) and/or in the first sentence(s) specification. Where the reference to the prior-filed national stage application appears in the specification, a suitable reference would read “This application is a continuation of U.S. Application No. 08/---, which was the National Stage of International Application No. PCT/DE95/---, filed ---.” Any benefit claim that does not both identify a prior application by its application number and specify a relationship between the applications will not be considered to contain a specific reference to a prior application as required by 35 U.S.C. 120. Such benefit claim may not be recognized by the Office and may not be included on the filing receipt even if the claim appears in an application data sheet (for an application filed on or after September 16, 2012), or in the application data sheet or the first sentence(s) of the specification (for an application filed prior to September 16, 2012). As a result, publication of the application may not be scheduled on the basis of the prior application’s filing date. If the Office does not recognize a benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 120 because it does not contain the required reference and the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78 for submitting the required reference has expired, applicant must submit a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and the petition fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(m) in order for the Office to accept the unintentionally delayed claim under 35 U.S.C. 120 because the application will not have been scheduled for publication on the basis of the prior application’s filing date. To specify the relationship between the applications, applicant must specify whether the application is a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part of the prior application. Note that the terms are exclusive. An application cannot be, for example, both a continuation and a divisional or a continuation and a continuation-in-part of the same application. Moreover, if the benefit of more than one nonprovisional application is claimed, then the relationship between each application (i.e., continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) must be specified in order to establish copendency throughout the entire chain of prior-filed applications. For example, where the reference to a prior nonprovisional application appears in the specification of an application as permitted for applications filed before September 16, 2012, a statement that “this application claims the benefit of Application Nos. C, B, and A” or “this application is a continuing application of Application Nos. C, B, and A” is improper. Applicant instead must state, for example, that “this application is a continuation of Application No. C, filed ---, which is a continuation of Application No. B, filed ---, which is a continuation of Application No. A, filed ---.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_2318e_388","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr"},{"id":"pb_fmc4hlub","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_fmc4hlub","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"III. REFERENCE TO PRIOR PROVISIONAL APPLICATIONS","rendered_text_plain":"III. 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    When a nonprovisional application filed on or after\n September 16, 2012 is entitled to an earlier U.S. effective filing date of one or\n more provisional applications under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), the reference\n must be included in an application data sheet. For applications filed prior to\n September 16, 2012, the reference to the provisional application must be in an\n application data sheet (37 CFR 1.76(a)) and/or in the\n first sentence(s) specification. Where the reference to a prior provisional\n application appears in the first sentence(s) of the specification a statement such as\n “This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/---,\n filed ---, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/ ---, filed ---.” should appear as\n the first sentence(s) of the description. In addition, where a nonprovisional\n application benefit claim appears in the specification of an application filed before\n September 16, 2012 and the application is claiming the benefit under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120 of a prior application, which in turn claims the benefit of\n a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), a suitable\n reference would read, “This application is a continuation of U.S. Application No.\n 10/---, filed ---, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No.\n 60/---, filed ---.”. Note that a design application cannot claim the benefit of a\n provisional application. See MPEP § 1504.20 for benefit\n information specific to design applications and MPEP §\n 2920.05(e) for benefit information specific to\n international design applications. \n

    The relationship, continuation, divisional, or\n continuation-in-part, is not required and should not be specified when the benefit of\n a prior provisional application is being claimed under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e). If such a relationship between a prior provisional\n application and the nonprovisional application is submitted, it may be unclear\n whether the applicant wishes to claim the benefit of the filing date of the\n provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or\n 120. Thus, applicants seeking to claim the benefit of a\n provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) should not state\n that the application is a “continuation” of a provisional application or that the\n application claims 35 U.S.C. 120 benefit to a\n provisional application. Although 35 U.S.C. 120 does not preclude a\n benefit claim to a provisional application, it is not recommended that applicants\n claim the benefit to a provisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 120 since such a claim could have the effect of reducing the\n patent term, as the term of a patent issuing from such an application may be measured\n from the filing date of the provisional application pursuant to 35 U.S.C.\n 154(a)(2).\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"When a nonprovisional application filed on or after September 16, 2012 is entitled to an earlier U.S. effective filing date of one or more provisional applications under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), the reference must be included in an application data sheet. For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, the reference to the provisional application must be in an application data sheet (37 CFR 1.76(a)) and/or in the first sentence(s) specification. Where the reference to a prior provisional application appears in the first sentence(s) of the specification a statement such as “This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/---, filed ---, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/ ---, filed ---.” should appear as the first sentence(s) of the description. In addition, where a nonprovisional application benefit claim appears in the specification of an application filed before September 16, 2012 and the application is claiming the benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 of a prior application, which in turn claims the benefit of a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), a suitable reference would read, “This application is a continuation of U.S. Application No. 10/---, filed ---, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/---, filed ---.”. Note that a design application cannot claim the benefit of a provisional application. See MPEP § 1504.20 for benefit information specific to design applications and MPEP § 2920.05(e) for benefit information specific to international design applications. The relationship, continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part, is not required and should not be specified when the benefit of a prior provisional application is being claimed under 35 U.S.C. 119(e). If such a relationship between a prior provisional application and the nonprovisional application is submitted, it may be unclear whether the applicant wishes to claim the benefit of the filing date of the provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) or 120. Thus, applicants seeking to claim the benefit of a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) should not state that the application is a “continuation” of a provisional application or that the application claims 35 U.S.C. 120 benefit to a provisional application. Although 35 U.S.C. 120 does not preclude a benefit claim to a provisional application, it is not recommended that applicants claim the benefit to a provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 120 since such a claim could have the effect of reducing the patent term, as the term of a patent issuing from such an application may be measured from the filing date of the provisional application pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_233b3_319","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr"},{"id":"st_olgftt4r","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_olgftt4r","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"154","subsection_path":["a","2"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2)"},{"id":"se_y3iztibu","node_type":"section","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/se_y3iztibu","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_2343d_96","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_02_a","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_02_a","section_number":"211.02(a)","chapter":"200","depth":2,"title":"Correcting or Adding a Benefit Claim After Filing","revision_tag":"R-07.2022","parent_section_id":"se_knqbxdtr","children_ids":["pb_dtqlvcyl","pb_s63x2ztz","pb_kz2in7r6","pb_b7smabao","ls_jnl5byap","pb_kbrrztri","pb_lbjfcfne","pb_iy6mphc6"]},{"id":"pb_dtqlvcyl","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_dtqlvcyl","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"I. 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    If applicant receives a filing receipt with missing\n or incorrect benefit claim information, applicant may request a corrected filing\n receipt. The Office will not grant a request for a corrected filing receipt to\n include a benefit claim unless the proper reference to the prior application is\n included (i) in an ADS (for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012) or\n (ii) in the first sentence(s) of the specification or an ADS (for applications\n filed prior to September 16, 2012) within the time period required by\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 with a few exceptions. See MPEP §\n 211.03. If the proper reference was previously submitted\n in an application filed on or after September 16, 2012, the request for a\n corrected filing receipt should indicate that the reference was properly and\n timely made in the ADS. If the proper reference was previously submitted in an\n application filed prior to September 16, 2012, the request for a corrected filing\n receipt should indicate that the reference was properly and timely made and where\n such reference is located (i.e., the specification, an amendment to the\n specification, or an ADS). The Office may notify applicants on or with the filing\n receipt that a benefit claim may not have been recognized because the benefit\n claim was improper but applicants are advised that only the benefit claims that\n are listed on the filing receipt have been recognized by the Office. Therefore,\n applicants should carefully and promptly review their filing receipts in order to\n avoid the need for a petition (37 CFR 1.78) and the petition\n fee.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If applicant receives a filing receipt with missing or incorrect benefit claim information, applicant may request a corrected filing receipt. The Office will not grant a request for a corrected filing receipt to include a benefit claim unless the proper reference to the prior application is included (i) in an ADS (for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012) or (ii) in the first sentence(s) of the specification or an ADS (for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012) within the time period required by 37 CFR 1.78 with a few exceptions. See MPEP § 211.03. If the proper reference was previously submitted in an application filed on or after September 16, 2012, the request for a corrected filing receipt should indicate that the reference was properly and timely made in the ADS. If the proper reference was previously submitted in an application filed prior to September 16, 2012, the request for a corrected filing receipt should indicate that the reference was properly and timely made and where such reference is located (i.e., the specification, an amendment to the specification, or an ADS). The Office may notify applicants on or with the filing receipt that a benefit claim may not have been recognized because the benefit claim was improper but applicants are advised that only the benefit claims that are listed on the filing receipt have been recognized by the Office. Therefore, applicants should carefully and promptly review their filing receipts in order to avoid the need for a petition (37 CFR 1.78) and the petition fee.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_23545_a3","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu"},{"id":"pb_kz2in7r6","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_kz2in7r6","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"II. ADDING BENEFIT CLAIMS","rendered_text_plain":"II. ADDING BENEFIT CLAIMS","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_y3iztibu/b.2","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"II. ADDING BENEFIT CLAIMS","host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu"},{"id":"pb_b7smabao","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_b7smabao","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    If a benefit claim is added after the time period\n required by 37 CFR 1.78, a petition and the petition fee are required.\n See MPEP § 211.04. Any petition under 37 CFR\n 1.78 must be accompanied by a corrected ADS in compliance\n with 37 CFR\n 1.76(c) (for applications filed on or after September 16,\n 2012), or by an amendment to the specification or a supplemental ADS in compliance\n with pre-AIA 37\n CFR 1.76(c) (for applications filed prior to September 16,\n 2012) unless the proper reference was previously submitted. In addition to the\n petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and ADS or\n amendment, to add a benefit claim it may be necessary for applicant to file one of\n the following, depending on the status of the application:\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If a benefit claim is added after the time period required by 37 CFR 1.78, a petition and the petition fee are required. See MPEP § 211.04. Any petition under 37 CFR 1.78 must be accompanied by a corrected ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76(c) (for applications filed on or after September 16, 2012), or by an amendment to the specification or a supplemental ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76(c) (for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012) unless the proper reference was previously submitted. In addition to the petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and ADS or amendment, to add a benefit claim it may be necessary for applicant to file one of the following, depending on the status of the application:","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24b42_375","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu"},{"id":"st_m6tm6suo","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_m6tm6suo","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.76","subsection_path":["c"],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.76(c)"},{"id":"st_brdknkho","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_brdknkho","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.114","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.114"},{"id":"st_bjdskwlt","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_bjdskwlt","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.116","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.116"},{"id":"st_lp7eu7k2","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_lp7eu7k2","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.312","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.312"},{"id":"st_xkyr6bgp","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_xkyr6bgp","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_cfr","authority_title_num":"37","authority_section_num":"1.323","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"37 CFR 1.323"},{"id":"ls_jnl5byap","node_type":"list","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/ls_jnl5byap","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24b80_308","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_style":"alpha_upper","nesting_depth":1,"parent_list_item_id":null,"host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu","item_ids":["li_pba7ho3l","li_blaqecac"]},{"id":"li_pba7ho3l","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_pba7ho3l","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (A) a request for continued examination (RCE)\n under 37\n CFR 1.114, if the application is under a final\n rejection or has been allowed (see MPEP § 706.07(h)). An\n amendment or ADS filed after final rejection or allowance is not entered as\n a matter of right and must be filed in compliance with 37 CFR\n 1.116 or 1.312, respectively; or\n \n
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  • (B) a reissue application or a request for a\n certificate of correction under 37 CFR 1.323, if\n appropriate (see MPEP §§ 1402 and\n 1481), if the application has issued as a\n patent.\n
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    When a benefit claim is submitted after the filing of\n an application, the reference to the prior application cannot include an\n incorporation by reference statement specifying of the prior application unless an\n incorporation by reference statement specifying of the prior application was\n presented upon filing of the application. See Dart Indus. v.\n Banner, 636 F.2d 684, 207 USPQ 273 (C.A.D.C. 1980). An incorporation\n by reference statement added after an application’s filing date is not effective\n because no new matter can be added to an application after its filing date (see\n 35 U.S.C.\n 132(a)). \n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"When a benefit claim is submitted after the filing of an application, the reference to the prior application cannot include an incorporation by reference statement specifying of the prior application unless an incorporation by reference statement specifying of the prior application was presented upon filing of the application. See Dart Indus. v. Banner, 636 F.2d 684, 207 USPQ 273 (C.A.D.C. 1980). An incorporation by reference statement added after an application’s filing date is not effective because no new matter can be added to an application after its filing date (see 35 U.S.C. 132(a)).","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24c1f_5c","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu"},{"id":"pb_lbjfcfne","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_lbjfcfne","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"III. DELETING BENEFIT CLAIMS","rendered_text_plain":"III. DELETING BENEFIT CLAIMS","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_y3iztibu/b.6","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"III. DELETING BENEFIT CLAIMS","host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu"},{"id":"pb_iy6mphc6","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_iy6mphc6","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    In certain circumstances, applicants may choose to\n delete a benefit claim. For applications filed on or after September 16, 2012,\n applicant may do so by filing a corrected application data sheet in compliance\n with 37 CFR\n 1.76(c) that deletes the reference to the prior-filed\n application. For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, applicant may do\n so by amending the specification (if the benefit claim is in the specification) or\n by submitting a supplemental application data sheet in compliance with\n pre-AIA 37\n CFR 1.76(c) to delete any references to prior applications. \n

    The examiner should consider whether any new prior\n art may now be available if a benefit claim is deleted. If an applicant is\n submitting an amendment to the specification or an ADS to delete a benefit claim\n after final rejection or action, the amendment or ADS will be treated under\n 37 CFR\n 1.116 (see MPEP § 714.12 and §\n 714.13). If the amendment or ADS to delete a benefit\n claim is submitted after the application has been allowed, the amendment or ADS\n will be treated under 37 CFR 1.312 (see\n MPEP §\n 714.16). A deletion of a benefit claim will not delay\n the publication of the application unless the amendment or ADS is recognized by\n the Office within nine weeks prior to the projected publication date that was\n originally calculated based on the benefit claim.\n

    A cancellation of a benefit claim to a prior\n application may be considered as a showing that the applicant is intentionally\n waiving the benefit claim to the prior application in the instant application. If\n the applicant later files a petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim to\n add the benefit claim to the prior application in the same application from which\n the benefit claim was canceled, the Office may refuse to accept such benefit claim\n because the delay was not unintentional. The correction or entry of the data in\n the Patent Data Portal can be made by technical support staff of the TC. Upon\n entry of the data, a new bib-data sheet should be placed in the file. See also\n MPEP §\n 707.05 and § 1302.09.\n

    In a continued prosecution application (CPA) filed\n under 37 CFR\n 1.53(d), no amendment may delete the specific reference to a\n prior application assigned the same application number. (Note: In the CPA, the\n request is the specific reference required by 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 to every\n application assigned the same application number identified in the request.\n Further, in a CPA, a specific reference in the first sentence(s) of the\n specification following the title, or in an application data sheet, to a prior\n application assigned the same application number is not required and should not be\n made.) \n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"In certain circumstances, applicants may choose to delete a benefit claim. For applications filed on or after September 16, 2012, applicant may do so by filing a corrected application data sheet in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76(c) that deletes the reference to the prior-filed application. For applications filed prior to September 16, 2012, applicant may do so by amending the specification (if the benefit claim is in the specification) or by submitting a supplemental application data sheet in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76(c) to delete any references to prior applications. The examiner should consider whether any new prior art may now be available if a benefit claim is deleted. If an applicant is submitting an amendment to the specification or an ADS to delete a benefit claim after final rejection or action, the amendment or ADS will be treated under 37 CFR 1.116 (see MPEP § 714.12 and § 714.13). If the amendment or ADS to delete a benefit claim is submitted after the application has been allowed, the amendment or ADS will be treated under 37 CFR 1.312 (see MPEP § 714.16). A deletion of a benefit claim will not delay the publication of the application unless the amendment or ADS is recognized by the Office within nine weeks prior to the projected publication date that was originally calculated based on the benefit claim. A cancellation of a benefit claim to a prior application may be considered as a showing that the applicant is intentionally waiving the benefit claim to the prior application in the instant application. If the applicant later files a petition to accept an unintentionally delayed claim to add the benefit claim to the prior application in the same application from which the benefit claim was canceled, the Office may refuse to accept such benefit claim because the delay was not unintentional. The correction or entry of the data in the Patent Data Portal can be made by technical support staff of the TC. Upon entry of the data, a new bib-data sheet should be placed in the file. See also MPEP § 707.05 and § 1302.09. In a continued prosecution application (CPA) filed under 37 CFR 1.53(d), no amendment may delete the specific reference to a prior application assigned the same application number. (Note: In the CPA, the request is the specific reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 to every application assigned the same application number identified in the request. Further, in a CPA, a specific reference in the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title, or in an application data sheet, to a prior application assigned the same application number is not required and should not be made.)","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24c6e_4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_y3iztibu"},{"id":"se_u3lha3a5","node_type":"section","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/se_u3lha3a5","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24d33_c","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_03","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!sec_211_03","section_number":"211.03","chapter":"200","depth":1,"title":"Time Period for Making a Claim for Benefit Under 37 CFR 1.78","revision_tag":"R-08.2017","parent_section_id":"se_rb6cntom","children_ids":["pb_daid43bi","ls_qf5semp2","pb_hh2vk4ic","fp_kvw5zekd"]},{"id":"pb_daid43bi","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_daid43bi","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    37 CFR\n 1.78 specifies: (A) a time period within which a benefit claim to\n a prior nonprovisional application, international application, international design\n application, or provisional application must be stated or it is considered waived; and\n (B) provisions for the acceptance of the unintentionally delayed submission of a claim\n to the benefit of a prior nonprovisional application, international application,\n international design application, or provisional application.\n

    If the application is a utility or plant application filed\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 111(a), the benefit claim of the prior application under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e), 120, 121,\n 365(c), or 386(c) must be made during the\n pendency of the application and within the later of four months from the actual filing\n date of the later-filed application or sixteen months from the filing date of the\n prior-filed application. If the application is a nonprovisional application entering the\n national stage from an international application under 35 U.S.C. 371, the\n benefit claim must be made within the later of: (1) four months from the date on which\n the national stage commenced under 35 U.S.C. 371(b) or\n (f); (2) four months from the date of the initial submission\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 371 to enter the national stage; or (3) sixteen months from the\n filing date of the prior application. This time period is not extendable and a failure\n to submit the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and/or\n 120, where applicable, within this time period is considered a\n waiver of any benefit of such prior application(s) under 35 U.S.C. 119(e),\n 120, 121, 365(c), and\n 386(c) unless a petition to accept an unintentionally delayed\n benefit claim is granted. See MPEP § 211.04.\n

    If the application is a design application, the claim\n under 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed application must be\n submitted during the pendency of the later-filed application.\n

    If an applicant includes a claim to the benefit of a prior\n application elsewhere in the application but not in the manner specified in\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 (e.g., if the benefit claim is not present in the proper\n place but is included in an oath or declaration, or the application transmittal letter,\n or in the first sentence(s) of the specification for an application filed on or after\n September 16, 2012) within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78,\n the Office will not require a petition and the petition fee under 37 CFR\n 1.17(m) to correct the benefit claim if the information concerning\n the benefit claim contained elsewhere in the application was recognized by the Office as\n shown by its inclusion on the first filing receipt. This is because the application will\n have been scheduled for publication on the basis of such information concerning the\n benefit claim. Applicant must still submit the benefit claim in the manner specified in\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 (i.e., in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76\n (or for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012 by an amendment to the first\n sentence(s) of the specification or in an ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR\n 1.76) to have a proper claim under 35 U.S.C. 120\n or 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the benefit of a\n prior application. If, however, an applicant includes a benefit claim elsewhere in the\n application and the claim is not recognized by the Office as shown by its absence on the\n first filing receipt, the Office will require a petition and the petition fee under\n 37 CFR\n 1.17(m) to correct the benefit claim if the correction is sought\n after expiration of the time period set in 37 CFR 1.78. This is because the\n application will not have been scheduled for publication on the basis of the information\n concerning the benefit claim contained elsewhere in the application.\n

    A petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and the petition fee\n would not be required for correcting a timely submitted benefit claim for the following\n situations:\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"37 CFR 1.78 specifies: (A) a time period within which a benefit claim to a prior nonprovisional application, international application, international design application, or provisional application must be stated or it is considered waived; and (B) provisions for the acceptance of the unintentionally delayed submission of a claim to the benefit of a prior nonprovisional application, international application, international design application, or provisional application. If the application is a utility or plant application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a), the benefit claim of the prior application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) must be made during the pendency of the application and within the later of four months from the actual filing date of the later-filed application or sixteen months from the filing date of the prior-filed application. If the application is a nonprovisional application entering the national stage from an international application under 35 U.S.C. 371, the benefit claim must be made within the later of: (1) four months from the date on which the national stage commenced under 35 U.S.C. 371(b) or (f); (2) four months from the date of the initial submission under 35 U.S.C. 371 to enter the national stage; or (3) sixteen months from the filing date of the prior application. This time period is not extendable and a failure to submit the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and/or 120, where applicable, within this time period is considered a waiver of any benefit of such prior application(s) under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121, 365(c), and 386(c) unless a petition to accept an unintentionally delayed benefit claim is granted. See MPEP § 211.04. If the application is a design application, the claim under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) for the benefit of a prior-filed application must be submitted during the pendency of the later-filed application. If an applicant includes a claim to the benefit of a prior application elsewhere in the application but not in the manner specified in 37 CFR 1.78 (e.g., if the benefit claim is not present in the proper place but is included in an oath or declaration, or the application transmittal letter, or in the first sentence(s) of the specification for an application filed on or after September 16, 2012) within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78, the Office will not require a petition and the petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m) to correct the benefit claim if the information concerning the benefit claim contained elsewhere in the application was recognized by the Office as shown by its inclusion on the first filing receipt. This is because the application will have been scheduled for publication on the basis of such information concerning the benefit claim. Applicant must still submit the benefit claim in the manner specified in 37 CFR 1.78 (i.e., in an ADS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.76 (or for applications filed prior to September 16, 2012 by an amendment to the first sentence(s) of the specification or in an ADS in compliance with pre-AIA 37 CFR 1.76) to have a proper claim under 35 U.S.C. 120 or 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the benefit of a prior application. If, however, an applicant includes a benefit claim elsewhere in the application and the claim is not recognized by the Office as shown by its absence on the first filing receipt, the Office will require a petition and the petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m) to correct the benefit claim if the correction is sought after expiration of the time period set in 37 CFR 1.78. This is because the application will not have been scheduled for publication on the basis of the information concerning the benefit claim contained elsewhere in the application. A petition under 37 CFR 1.78 and the petition fee would not be required for correcting a timely submitted benefit claim for the following situations:","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24d4a_255","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_u3lha3a5"},{"id":"st_ffmb7xis","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_ffmb7xis","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"371","subsection_path":["b"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 371(b)"},{"id":"st_imu7nnh3","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_imu7nnh3","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"371","subsection_path":["f"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 371(f)"},{"id":"ls_qf5semp2","node_type":"list","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/ls_qf5semp2","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24e43_276","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_style":"alpha_upper","nesting_depth":1,"parent_list_item_id":null,"host_section_id":"se_u3lha3a5","item_ids":["li_fgzlm5h6","li_iijjiq4x","li_t6jv4w4z"]},{"id":"li_fgzlm5h6","node_type":"list_item","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/li_fgzlm5h6","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"
  • (A) Changing the relationship of the applications (e.g.,\n changing from “continuation” or “divisional” to “continuation-in-part” or from\n “continuation-in-part” to “continuation” or “divisional”);\n
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  • (B) Changing the filing date of a prior-filed\n nonprovisional or provisional application; and\n
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  • (C) Changing a benefit claim of a prior-filed\n provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 120 (e.g., “This\n application is a continuation of prior-filed provisional application No. ---”) to\n a benefit claim of the same provisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e) (e.g., “This application claims the benefit of\n prior-filed provisional application No. ---”) during the pendency of the\n later-filed application. Note, however: If the later-filed application has issued\n as a patent, the correction cannot be made by a certificate of correction and\n would not be effective in a reissue application because the term of a patent is\n measured from the prior application’s filing date and removing the benefit claim\n under 35\n U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) would have the effect of lengthening the term of the\n patent. \n
    • ","rendered_text_plain":"(C) Changing a benefit claim of a prior-filed provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 120 (e.g., “This application is a continuation of prior-filed provisional application No. ---”) to a benefit claim of the same provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) (e.g., “This application claims the benefit of prior-filed provisional application No. ---”) during the pendency of the later-filed application. Note, however: If the later-filed application has issued as a patent, the correction cannot be made by a certificate of correction and would not be effective in a reissue application because the term of a patent is measured from the prior application’s filing date and removing the benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) would have the effect of lengthening the term of the patent.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24ea7_232","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"enumerator_label":"(C)","enumerator_ordinal":2,"parent_list_id":"ls_qf5semp2","child_ids":null},{"id":"pb_hh2vk4ic","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_hh2vk4ic","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    If a benefit claim is filed after the required time period\n and without a petition as required by 37 CFR 1.78, the applicant should be\n informed that the benefit claim was not entered and that a petition needs to be filed\n using form paragraph 2.39.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If a benefit claim is filed after the required time period and without a petition as required by 37 CFR 1.78, the applicant should be informed that the benefit claim was not entered and that a petition needs to be filed using form paragraph 2.39.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_24f04_3cb","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_u3lha3a5"},{"id":"fp_kvw5zekd","node_type":"form_paragraph","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/fp_kvw5zekd","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"fp2.39","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"akn_urn":"/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!fp_2_39","canonical_url":"https://mpep.io/akn/us/statement/manual/uspto/2024/mpep/eng@2024-02-29!fp_2_39","form_paragraph_number":"2.39","title":"35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121, or 365(c), or 386(c) Benefit Claim is Untimely","body_html":"

    The benefit claim filed on [1] was not entered because the\n required reference was not timely filed within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 1.78. If the\n application is an application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a), the reference to the\n prior application must be submitted during the pendency of the application and within the\n later of four months from the actual filing date of the application or sixteen months from the\n filing date of the prior application. If the application is a nonprovisional application\n entering the national stage from an international application under 35 U.S.C. 371, the\n reference to the prior application must be made during the pendency of the application and\n within the later of four months from the date on which the national stage commenced under\n 35 U.S.C. 371(b) or\n (f), four months from the date of the initial submission under 35 U.S.C.\n 371 to enter the national stage, or sixteen months from the filing date of the prior\n application. If the application was filed before September 16, 2012, the reference must be\n included in the first sentence(s) of the specification following the title or in an\n application data sheet; if the application was filed on or after September 16, 2012, the\n specific reference must be included in an application data sheet. For benefit claims under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c), the reference must\n include the relationship (i.e., continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) of the\n applications. See 37 CFR 1.78(a) for benefit claims under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78(d)\n for benefit claims under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c).\n

    If applicant desires the benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121,\n 365(c) or 386(c) based upon a previously filed application, applicant must file a petition for\n an unintentionally delayed benefit claim under 37 CFR 1.78(c) for benefit claims under 35\n U.S.C. 119(e) or under 37 CFR 1.78(e) for benefit claims under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c). The petition must be accompanied by: (1) the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 or\n 119(e)\n and 37 CFR\n 1.78 to the prior application (unless previously submitted); (2) a\n petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m); and (3) a statement that\n the entire delay between the date the benefit claim was due under 37 CFR 1.78 and the\n date the claim was filed was unintentional. The Director may require additional information\n where there is a question whether the delay was unintentional. The petition should be\n addressed to: Mail Stop Petition, Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria,\n Virginia 22313-1450.\n

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    If the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120\n and 37 CFR\n 1.78 is not submitted within the required time period, a petition\n for an unintentionally delayed claim may be filed. The petition must be accompanied by:\n (A) the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 to\n the prior application (unless previously submitted); (B) a petition fee under\n 37 CFR\n 1.17(m); and (C) a statement that the entire delay between the\n date the benefit claim was due under 37 CFR 1.78 and the date the claim\n was filed was unintentional. \n

    While the Director may require additional information\n whenever there is a question of whether the delay was unintentional, a person filing a\n petition to accept a delayed benefit claim more than two years after the date the\n benefit claim was due is required to provide additional explanation of the circumstances\n surrounding the delay that establishes that the entire delay was unintentional. This\n requirement is in addition to the requirement to provide a statement that the entire\n delay was unintentional in 37 CFR 1.78(c)(3) and\n (e)(3). See Clarification of the Practice for Requiring\n Additional Information in Petitions Filed in Patent Applications and Patents Based on\n Unintentional Delay, 85 FR 12222-24 (March 2, 2020). See also\n MPEP §\n 711.03(c) for further discussion of the “unintentional” delay\n standard. \n

    Effective May 13, 2015, 37 CFR\n 1.78(d)(3) was amended to make the procedures under\n 37 CFR\n 1.78(e) to accept an unintentionally delayed benefit claim\n applicable to design applications where the benefit claim was not submitted during the\n pendency of the design application. Thus, a petition under 37 CFR\n 1.78(e) may be filed along with a request for certificate of\n correction after patent grant. See MPEP § 1481.03.\n

    Likewise, if the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e)\n and 37 CFR\n 1.78 is not submitted within the required time period, a petition\n for an unintentionally delayed claim may be filed. The petition must be accompanied by:\n (A) the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and\n 37 CFR\n 1.78 to the prior provisional application (unless previously\n submitted); (B) a petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m); and (C) a statement\n that the entire delay between the date the benefit claim was due under 37 CFR 1.78\n and the date the claim was filed was unintentional. The Director may require additional\n information where there is a question whether the delay was unintentional. In\n particular, when the petition to accept a delayed benefit claim is submitted more than\n two years after the date the benefit claim was due, the petition will require additional\n explanation of the circumstances surrounding the delay that establishes that the entire\n delay was unintentional. See 37 CFR 1.78(c).\n

    Effective December 18, 2013,35 U.S.C.\n 119(e)(1) no longer requires that the amendment containing the\n specific reference to the earlier filed provisional application be submitted during the\n pendency of the application. Therefore, a petition to revive is no longer required to\n add or correct a benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) in an abandoned\n nonprovisional application filed on or after November 29, 2000. Applicant may simply\n file a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 to accept an\n unintentionally delayed claim for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application\n in the abandoned nonprovisional application. It may be necessary to correct the benefit\n in the abandoned nonprovisional application so that the benefit claims in a later filed\n nonprovisional application claiming benefit of the abandoned nonprovisional application\n are proper. \n

    Petitions\n for an unintentionally delayed benefit claim should be forwarded to the Office of\n Petitions. See MPEP §\n 1002.02(b).\n

    DELAYED SUBMISSION OF BENEFIT CLAIM IN INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION

    A petition under 37 CFR 1.78 for accepting an\n unintentionally delayed benefit claim and the petition fee under 37 CFR\n 1.17(m) are required to add a benefit claim under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120 and 365(c) in an abandoned international\n application designating the United States, even when the international application did\n not enter the national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371. For example, when\n filing a “bypass” continuation application under 35 U.S.C.\n 111(a) that claims the benefit of an international application\n designating the United States that could have but did not claim the benefit of an\n earlier U.S. application, and the benefit claim is to be added to the international\n application, a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 must be filed in the\n international application.\n

    If a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(c)\n or (e) is required in an international application that was not\n filed with the United States Receiving Office and is not a nonprovisional application,\n then the petition may be filed in the earliest nonprovisional application that claims\n benefit under 35\n U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or\n 386(c) to the international application and will be treated as\n having been filed in the international application. See 37 CFR\n 1.78(i).\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"If the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 is not submitted within the required time period, a petition for an unintentionally delayed claim may be filed. The petition must be accompanied by: (A) the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 120 and 37 CFR 1.78 to the prior application (unless previously submitted); (B) a petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m); and (C) a statement that the entire delay between the date the benefit claim was due under 37 CFR 1.78 and the date the claim was filed was unintentional. While the Director may require additional information whenever there is a question of whether the delay was unintentional, a person filing a petition to accept a delayed benefit claim more than two years after the date the benefit claim was due is required to provide additional explanation of the circumstances surrounding the delay that establishes that the entire delay was unintentional. This requirement is in addition to the requirement to provide a statement that the entire delay was unintentional in 37 CFR 1.78(c)(3) and (e)(3). See Clarification of the Practice for Requiring Additional Information in Petitions Filed in Patent Applications and Patents Based on Unintentional Delay, 85 FR 12222-24 (March 2, 2020). See also MPEP § 711.03(c) for further discussion of the “unintentional” delay standard. Effective May 13, 2015, 37 CFR 1.78(d)(3) was amended to make the procedures under 37 CFR 1.78(e) to accept an unintentionally delayed benefit claim applicable to design applications where the benefit claim was not submitted during the pendency of the design application. Thus, a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(e) may be filed along with a request for certificate of correction after patent grant. See MPEP § 1481.03. Likewise, if the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 is not submitted within the required time period, a petition for an unintentionally delayed claim may be filed. The petition must be accompanied by: (A) the reference required by 35 U.S.C. 119(e) and 37 CFR 1.78 to the prior provisional application (unless previously submitted); (B) a petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m); and (C) a statement that the entire delay between the date the benefit claim was due under 37 CFR 1.78 and the date the claim was filed was unintentional. The Director may require additional information where there is a question whether the delay was unintentional. In particular, when the petition to accept a delayed benefit claim is submitted more than two years after the date the benefit claim was due, the petition will require additional explanation of the circumstances surrounding the delay that establishes that the entire delay was unintentional. See 37 CFR 1.78(c). Effective December 18, 2013,35 U.S.C. 119(e)(1) no longer requires that the amendment containing the specific reference to the earlier filed provisional application be submitted during the pendency of the application. Therefore, a petition to revive is no longer required to add or correct a benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) in an abandoned nonprovisional application filed on or after November 29, 2000. Applicant may simply file a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 to accept an unintentionally delayed claim for the benefit of a prior-filed provisional application in the abandoned nonprovisional application. It may be necessary to correct the benefit in the abandoned nonprovisional application so that the benefit claims in a later filed nonprovisional application claiming benefit of the abandoned nonprovisional application are proper. Petitions for an unintentionally delayed benefit claim should be forwarded to the Office of Petitions. See MPEP § 1002.02(b). DELAYED SUBMISSION OF BENEFIT CLAIM IN INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONA petition under 37 CFR 1.78 for accepting an unintentionally delayed benefit claim and the petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(m) are required to add a benefit claim under 35 U.S.C. 120 and 365(c) in an abandoned international application designating the United States, even when the international application did not enter the national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371. For example, when filing a “bypass” continuation application under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that claims the benefit of an international application designating the United States that could have but did not claim the benefit of an earlier U.S. application, and the benefit claim is to be added to the international application, a petition under 37 CFR 1.78 must be filed in the international application. If a petition under 37 CFR 1.78(c) or (e) is required in an international application that was not filed with the United States Receiving Office and is not a nonprovisional application, then the petition may be filed in the earliest nonprovisional application that claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) to the international application and will be treated as having been filed in the international application. 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DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT","rendered_text_plain":"I. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_lp4tyzh3/b.0","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"I. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT","host_section_id":"se_lp4tyzh3"},{"id":"pb_bzrb3pzb","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_bzrb3pzb","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    To be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of an\n earlier-filed application, the later-filed application must be an application for a\n patent for an invention which is also disclosed in the prior application (the parent\n or earlier-filed nonprovisional application or provisional application for which\n benefit is claimed); the disclosure of the invention in the prior application and in\n the later-filed application must be sufficient to comply with the requirements of\n 35\n U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement. See\n Transco Prods., Inc. v. Performance Contracting, Inc., 38 F.3d\n 551, 32 USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994). Accordingly, the disclosure of the prior-filed\n application must provide adequate support and enablement for the claimed subject\n matter of the later-filed application in compliance with the requirements of\n 35\n U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"To be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of an earlier-filed application, the later-filed application must be an application for a patent for an invention which is also disclosed in the prior application (the parent or earlier-filed nonprovisional application or provisional application for which benefit is claimed); the disclosure of the invention in the prior application and in the later-filed application must be sufficient to comply with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement. See Transco Prods., Inc. v. Performance Contracting, Inc., 38 F.3d 551, 32 USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994). Accordingly, the disclosure of the prior-filed application must provide adequate support and enablement for the claimed subject matter of the later-filed application in compliance with the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_25165_d0","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_lp4tyzh3"},{"id":"cs_aaigdydj","node_type":"case","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/cs_aaigdydj","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"Transco Prods., Inc. v. Performance Contracting, Inc., 38 F.3d 551 (Fed. Cir. 1994)","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"short_name":"Transco Prods., Inc. v. Performance Contracting, Inc.","canonical_citation":"Transco Prods., Inc. v. Performance Contracting, Inc., 38 F.3d 551, 32 USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994)","all_citations":["38 F.3d 551","32 USPQ2d 1077"],"decision_year":1994,"court":"Fed. Cir."},{"id":"pb_6o7gq2zw","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_6o7gq2zw","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"A.Claiming the Benefit of Provisional Applications","rendered_text_plain":"A.Claiming the Benefit of Provisional Applications","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_lp4tyzh3/b.2","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"A.Claiming the Benefit of Provisional Applications","host_section_id":"se_lp4tyzh3"},{"id":"pb_e3jjrk3k","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_e3jjrk3k","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    Under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), the written\n description and drawing(s) (if any) of the provisional application must adequately\n support and enable the subject matter claimed in the nonprovisional application\n that claims the benefit of the provisional application. In New Railhead\n Mfg., L.L.C. v. Vermeer Mfg. Co., 298 F.3d 1290, 1294, 63 USPQ2d\n 1843, 1846 (Fed. Cir. 2002), the court held that for a\n nonprovisional application to be afforded the benefit\n date of the provisional application, “the specification of\n the provisional must ‘contain a written description of the\n invention and the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear,\n concise, and exact terms,’ 35 U.S.C. 112¶1, to enable an\n ordinarily skilled artisan to practice the invention claimed in the\n nonprovisional application.”\n

    In New Railhead, the patented\n drill bit was the subject of a commercial offer for sale. A provisional\n application was filed after the sale offer, but well within the one year grace\n period of 35 U.S.C. 102(b). A\n nonprovisional application, which issued as Patent No. 5,899,283, was filed within\n one year of the filing of the provisional application but more than one year after\n the sale offer. If the ‘283 patent was not afforded the benefit date of the\n provisional application, the patent would be invalid under 35 U.S.C.\n 102(b) since it was filed more than one year after the\n commercial offer for sale. The court looked at claim 1 of the ‘283 patent which\n recites a bit body being angled with respect to the sonde\n housing. The court then reviewed the provisional application and\n concluded that nowhere in the provisional application is the bit body expressly\n described as “being angled with respect to the sonde housing” as recited in claim\n 1 of the ‘283 patent. The court held that the disclosure of the provisional\n application does not adequately support the invention claimed in the ‘283 patent\n as to the angle limitation and therefore, the ‘283 patent is not entitled to the\n filing date of the provisional application under 35 U.S.C.\n 119(e)(1) and the ‘283 patent is invalid under\n 35\n U.S.C. 102(b).\n

    A claim is not required in a provisional application.\n However, for a claim in a later filed nonprovisional application to be entitled to\n the benefit of the filing date of the provisional application, the written\n description and drawing(s) (if any) of the provisional application must adequately\n support and enable the subject matter of the claim in the later filed\n nonprovisional application. If a claim in the nonprovisional application is not\n adequately supported by the written description and drawing(s) (if any) of the\n provisional application (as in New Railhead), that claim in the\n nonprovisional application is not entitled to the benefit\n of the filing date of the provisional application. If the filing date of the\n earlier provisional application is necessary, for example, in the case of an\n interference or to overcome a reference, care must be taken to ensure that the\n disclosure filed as the provisional application adequately provides (1) a written\n description of the subject matter of the claim(s) at issue in the later filed\n nonprovisional application, and (2) an enabling disclosure to permit one of\n ordinary skill in the art to make and use the claimed invention in the later filed\n nonprovisional application without undue experimentation.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"Under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), the written description and drawing(s) (if any) of the provisional application must adequately support and enable the subject matter claimed in the nonprovisional application that claims the benefit of the provisional application. In New Railhead Mfg., L.L.C. v. Vermeer Mfg. Co., 298 F.3d 1290, 1294, 63 USPQ2d 1843, 1846 (Fed. Cir. 2002), the court held that for a nonprovisional application to be afforded the benefit date of the provisional application, “the specification of the provisional must ‘contain a written description of the invention and the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms,’ 35 U.S.C. 112¶1, to enable an ordinarily skilled artisan to practice the invention claimed in the nonprovisional application.” In New Railhead, the patented drill bit was the subject of a commercial offer for sale. A provisional application was filed after the sale offer, but well within the one year grace period of 35 U.S.C. 102(b). A nonprovisional application, which issued as Patent No. 5,899,283, was filed within one year of the filing of the provisional application but more than one year after the sale offer. If the ‘283 patent was not afforded the benefit date of the provisional application, the patent would be invalid under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) since it was filed more than one year after the commercial offer for sale. The court looked at claim 1 of the ‘283 patent which recites a bit body being angled with respect to the sonde housing. The court then reviewed the provisional application and concluded that nowhere in the provisional application is the bit body expressly described as “being angled with respect to the sonde housing” as recited in claim 1 of the ‘283 patent. The court held that the disclosure of the provisional application does not adequately support the invention claimed in the ‘283 patent as to the angle limitation and therefore, the ‘283 patent is not entitled to the filing date of the provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e)(1) and the ‘283 patent is invalid under 35 U.S.C. 102(b). A claim is not required in a provisional application. However, for a claim in a later filed nonprovisional application to be entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the provisional application, the written description and drawing(s) (if any) of the provisional application must adequately support and enable the subject matter of the claim in the later filed nonprovisional application. If a claim in the nonprovisional application is not adequately supported by the written description and drawing(s) (if any) of the provisional application (as in New Railhead), that claim in the nonprovisional application is not entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the provisional application. If the filing date of the earlier provisional application is necessary, for example, in the case of an interference or to overcome a reference, care must be taken to ensure that the disclosure filed as the provisional application adequately provides (1) a written description of the subject matter of the claim(s) at issue in the later filed nonprovisional application, and (2) an enabling disclosure to permit one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the claimed invention in the later filed nonprovisional application without undue experimentation.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_251e5_1d8","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_lp4tyzh3"},{"id":"st_35hzro2v","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_35hzro2v","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"112","subsection_path":[],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 112"},{"id":"cs_pnikyazd","node_type":"case","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/cs_pnikyazd","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"New Railhead Mfg., L.L.C. v. 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Cir."},{"id":"st_jftolmqq","node_type":"statute","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/st_jftolmqq","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"authority":"us_usc","authority_title_num":"35","authority_section_num":"102","subsection_path":["b"],"canonical_citation":"35 U.S.C. 102(b)"},{"id":"pb_ongw3kfj","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_ongw3kfj","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"B.Claiming the Benefit of Nonprovisional Applications","rendered_text_plain":"B.Claiming the Benefit of Nonprovisional Applications","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"se_lp4tyzh3/b.4","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"informal_heading","heading_level":2,"heading_text":"B.Claiming the Benefit of Nonprovisional Applications","host_section_id":"se_lp4tyzh3"},{"id":"pb_tpvtwt65","node_type":"prose_block","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/pb_tpvtwt65","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"

    The disclosure of a continuation application must be\n the same as the disclosure of the prior-filed application; i.e., the continuation\n must not include anything which would constitute new matter if inserted in the\n original application. See MPEP § 201.07. The disclosure of\n a divisional application must be the same as the disclosure of the prior-filed\n application, or include at least that portion of the disclosure of the prior-filed\n application that is germane to the invention claimed in the divisional\n application. See MPEP § 201.06. The disclosure of\n a continuation or divisional application cannot include anything which would\n constitute new matter if inserted in the prior-filed application. A\n continuation-in-part application may include matter not disclosed in the\n prior-filed application. See MPEP § 201.08. Only the claims of\n the continuation-in-part application that are disclosed in the manner provided by\n 35\n U.S.C. 112(a) in the prior-filed application are entitled to\n the benefit of the filing date of the prior-filed application. If there is a\n continuous chain of copending nonprovisional applications, each copending\n application must disclose the claimed invention of the later-filed application in\n the manner provided by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) in order for\n the later-filed application to be entitled to the benefit of the earliest filing\n date. See Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Gilead Scis.,\n Inc., 61 F.4th 1350, 1358, 1360, 2023 USPQ2d 269 (Fed. Cir. 2023)\n (affirming the PTAB's decision in an inter partes review\n proceeding and holding that the patentee was not entitled to rely on the earlier\n filing dates of two nonprovisional applications and a provisional application\n because the prior-filed applications did not provide sufficient written\n description to support the invention claimed in the challenged patent). \n

    Under 35 U.S.C. 120, a claim in a\n U.S. application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of an earlier filed\n U.S. application if the subject matter of the claim is disclosed in the manner\n provided by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) except for\n the best mode requirement, in the earlier filed application. See, e.g.,\n Tronzo v. Biomet, Inc., 156 F.3d 1154, 47 USPQ2d 1829 (Fed.\n Cir. 1998); In re Scheiber, 587 F.2d 59, 199 USPQ 782 (CCPA\n 1978). A claim in a subsequently filed application that relies on a combination of\n prior applications may not be entitled to the benefit of an earlier filing date\n under 35\n U.S.C. 120 since 35 U.S.C. 120 requires that\n the earlier filed application contain a disclosure which complies with\n 35\n U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement for each\n claim in the subsequently filed application. Studiengesellschaft Kohle\n m.b.H. v. Shell Oil Co., 112 F.3d 1561, 1564, 42 USPQ2d 1674, 1677\n (Fed. Cir. 1997). \n

    A claim in the later-filed application is not\n entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior-filed application if the\n disclosure of the prior-filed application does not enable one skilled in the art\n to “use” the claimed invention. See In re Hafner, 410 F.2d\n 1403, 1406, 161 USPQ 783, 786 (CCPA 1969) (“[T]o be entitled to the benefits\n provided by [35 U.S.C. 120], the invention disclosed in the “previously\n filed” application must be described therein in such a manner as to satisfy\n all the requirements of the first paragraph of\n [35 U.S.C.]\n 112, including that which requires the description to be\n sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to use the\n [invention].”).\n

    Where the prior application (a nonprovisional\n application) is found to be fatally defective because of insufficient disclosure\n to support allowable claims, a later-filed application filed as a\n “continuation-in-part” of the first application to supply the deficiency is not\n entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the first application. Hunt\n Co. v. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, 177 F.2d 583, 587, 83 USPQ 277,\n 281 (2d Cir. 1949) and cases cited therein. Any claim in a continuation-in-part\n application which is directed solely to subject matter\n adequately disclosed under 35 U.S.C. 112 in the parent\n nonprovisional application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the\n parent nonprovisional application. However, if a claim in a continuation-in-part\n application recites a feature which was not disclosed or adequately supported by a\n proper disclosure under 35 U.S.C. 112 in the parent\n nonprovisional application, but which was first introduced or adequately supported\n in the continuation-in-part application, such a claim is entitled only to the\n filing date of the continuation-in-part application. See, e.g., In re\n Chu, 66 F.3d 292, 36 USPQ2d 1089 (Fed. Cir. 1995); Transco\n Products, Inc. v. Performance Contracting Inc., 38 F.3d 551, 32\n USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994); In re Van Lagenhoven, 458 F.2d\n 132, 136, 173 USPQ 426, 429 (CCPA 1972).\n

    By way of further illustration, if the claims of a\n continuation-in-part application which are only entitled to the\n continuation-in-part filing date “read on” published, publicly used or sold, or\n patented subject matter (e.g., as in a genus-species relationship) a rejection\n under 35 U.S.C. 102 would be proper. Cases of interest in this\n regard are as follows: Mendenhall v. Cedarapids Inc., 5 F.3d\n 1557, 28 USPQ2d 1081 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Lukach, 442 F.2d\n 967, 169 USPQ 795 (CCPA 1971); In re Hafner, 410 F.2d 1403, 161\n USPQ 783 (CCPA 1969); In re Ruscetta, 255 F.2d 687, 118 USPQ\n 101 (CCPA 1958); In re Steenbock, 83 F.2d 912, 30 USPQ 45 (CCPA\n 1936); and Ex parte Hageman, 179 USPQ 747 (Bd. App. 1971).\n

    Form paragraphs 2.09 and\n 2.10\n should be used where the claims of the later-filed application are not adequately\n disclosed or enabled by the disclosure of the prior application.\n

    ","rendered_text_plain":"The disclosure of a continuation application must be the same as the disclosure of the prior-filed application; i.e., the continuation must not include anything which would constitute new matter if inserted in the original application. See MPEP § 201.07. The disclosure of a divisional application must be the same as the disclosure of the prior-filed application, or include at least that portion of the disclosure of the prior-filed application that is germane to the invention claimed in the divisional application. See MPEP § 201.06. The disclosure of a continuation or divisional application cannot include anything which would constitute new matter if inserted in the prior-filed application. A continuation-in-part application may include matter not disclosed in the prior-filed application. See MPEP § 201.08. Only the claims of the continuation-in-part application that are disclosed in the manner provided by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) in the prior-filed application are entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior-filed application. If there is a continuous chain of copending nonprovisional applications, each copending application must disclose the claimed invention of the later-filed application in the manner provided by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) in order for the later-filed application to be entitled to the benefit of the earliest filing date. See Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Gilead Scis., Inc., 61 F.4th 1350, 1358, 1360, 2023 USPQ2d 269 (Fed. Cir. 2023) (affirming the PTAB's decision in an inter partes review proceeding and holding that the patentee was not entitled to rely on the earlier filing dates of two nonprovisional applications and a provisional application because the prior-filed applications did not provide sufficient written description to support the invention claimed in the challenged patent). Under 35 U.S.C. 120, a claim in a U.S. application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of an earlier filed U.S. application if the subject matter of the claim is disclosed in the manner provided by 35 U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement, in the earlier filed application. See, e.g., Tronzo v. Biomet, Inc., 156 F.3d 1154, 47 USPQ2d 1829 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Scheiber, 587 F.2d 59, 199 USPQ 782 (CCPA 1978). A claim in a subsequently filed application that relies on a combination of prior applications may not be entitled to the benefit of an earlier filing date under 35 U.S.C. 120 since 35 U.S.C. 120 requires that the earlier filed application contain a disclosure which complies with 35 U.S.C. 112(a) except for the best mode requirement for each claim in the subsequently filed application. Studiengesellschaft Kohle m.b.H. v. Shell Oil Co., 112 F.3d 1561, 1564, 42 USPQ2d 1674, 1677 (Fed. Cir. 1997). A claim in the later-filed application is not entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the prior-filed application if the disclosure of the prior-filed application does not enable one skilled in the art to “use” the claimed invention. See In re Hafner, 410 F.2d 1403, 1406, 161 USPQ 783, 786 (CCPA 1969) (“[T]o be entitled to the benefits provided by [35 U.S.C. 120], the invention disclosed in the “previously filed” application must be described therein in such a manner as to satisfy all the requirements of the first paragraph of [35 U.S.C.] 112, including that which requires the description to be sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to use the [invention].”). Where the prior application (a nonprovisional application) is found to be fatally defective because of insufficient disclosure to support allowable claims, a later-filed application filed as a “continuation-in-part” of the first application to supply the deficiency is not entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the first application. Hunt Co. v. Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, 177 F.2d 583, 587, 83 USPQ 277, 281 (2d Cir. 1949) and cases cited therein. Any claim in a continuation-in-part application which is directed solely to subject matter adequately disclosed under 35 U.S.C. 112 in the parent nonprovisional application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date of the parent nonprovisional application. However, if a claim in a continuation-in-part application recites a feature which was not disclosed or adequately supported by a proper disclosure under 35 U.S.C. 112 in the parent nonprovisional application, but which was first introduced or adequately supported in the continuation-in-part application, such a claim is entitled only to the filing date of the continuation-in-part application. See, e.g., In re Chu, 66 F.3d 292, 36 USPQ2d 1089 (Fed. Cir. 1995); Transco Products, Inc. v. Performance Contracting Inc., 38 F.3d 551, 32 USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994); In re Van Lagenhoven, 458 F.2d 132, 136, 173 USPQ 426, 429 (CCPA 1972). By way of further illustration, if the claims of a continuation-in-part application which are only entitled to the continuation-in-part filing date “read on” published, publicly used or sold, or patented subject matter (e.g., as in a genus-species relationship) a rejection under 35 U.S.C. 102 would be proper. Cases of interest in this regard are as follows: Mendenhall v. Cedarapids Inc., 5 F.3d 1557, 28 USPQ2d 1081 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Lukach, 442 F.2d 967, 169 USPQ 795 (CCPA 1971); In re Hafner, 410 F.2d 1403, 161 USPQ 783 (CCPA 1969); In re Ruscetta, 255 F.2d 687, 118 USPQ 101 (CCPA 1958); In re Steenbock, 83 F.2d 912, 30 USPQ 45 (CCPA 1936); and Ex parte Hageman, 179 USPQ 747 (Bd. App. 1971). Form paragraphs 2.09 and 2.10 should be used where the claims of the later-filed application are not adequately disclosed or enabled by the disclosure of the prior application.","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"ch200_d1ff71_253cf_220","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"kind":"narrative","host_section_id":"se_lp4tyzh3"},{"id":"cs_r7nicgz3","node_type":"case","corpus_id":"mpep-e9r01-2024-html","opaque_url":"https://mpep.io/n/cs_r7nicgz3","effective_range":{"start_revision":"R-07.2022","end_revision":null},"rendered_text_html":"","rendered_text_plain":"Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Gilead Scis., Inc., 61 F.4th 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2023)","provenance":{"source_file":"s211.html","source_anchor":"","source_sha256":"768db558334110346d1702492badd7dcf6d31f31578b8975adb3e066be0b2b4b"},"short_name":"Regents of the University of Minnesota v. 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    The later-filed application must be an application for a\n patent for an invention which is also disclosed in the prior application (the parent or\n earlier-filed nonprovisional application or provisional application for which benefit is\n claimed). The disclosure of the invention in the parent application and in the later-filed\n application must be sufficient to comply with the requirements of 35 U.S.C.\n 112(a) or the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112,\n except for the best mode requirement. See Transco Products, Inc. v. Performance\n Contracting, Inc., 38 F.3d 551, 32 USPQ2d 1077 (Fed. Cir. 1994).\n

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    Form paragraph 2.10.01 should be used where\n applicant is claiming the benefit of a prior nonprovisional application under\n 35 U.S.C.\n 120, 121, or 365(c) and\n the relationship (continuation or divisional) of the applications should be\n changed to continuation-in-part because the disclosure of the later-filed\n application contains matter not disclosed in the prior-filed nonprovisional\n application.\n

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    Applicant states that this application is a continuation or divisional\n application of the prior-filed application. A continuation or divisional application cannot\n include new matter. Applicant is required to delete the benefit claim or change the\n relationship (continuation or divisional application) to continuation-in-part because this\n application contains the following matter not disclosed in the prior-filed application:\n [1]. \n

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