A divisional patent application, also called divisional application or simply divisional, is a type of patent application that contains subject-matter...

earlier-filed patent application. A continuing patent application may be one of three types: a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part. Although continuation...

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for an invention described in the patent specification and a set...

examiner's requests (e.g. a demand to split a patent application into two or more divisional patent applications) also qualify as "office actions". A concept...

European Patent Office (EPO), divisional applications can be filed under Article 76 EPC out of pending earlier European patent applications. A divisional application...

of the European Patent Office (EPO). For instance, a decision of an Examining Division refusing to grant a European patent application may be appealed...

against a divisional application or against the original application or any patent issued on either of them, if the divisional application is filed before...

software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software patents cover...

into two or more divisional patent applications, which may have different inventors, because of different claims in the applications, and therefore different...

Notably, patent term adjustment is not available for divisional (and other continuing) patents issued from the same priority application (see Mohsenzadeh...

Patents is a search engine from Google that indexes patents and patent applications. Google Patents indexes more than 87 million patents and patent applications...

Patent prosecution is the interaction between applicants and a patent office with regard to a patent application or a patent. The prosecution process is...

defined, the backlog of unexamined patent applications consists, at one point in time, of all the patent applications that have been filed and still remain...

European patents, but this exclusion from patentability only applies to the extent to which a European patent application or European patent relates to...

the patent extends beyond the content of the application as filed –"or, if the patent was granted on a divisional application or on a new application filed...

before the European Patent Office (EPO) is an ex parte, administrative procedure, which includes the filing of a European patent application, the examination...

European patent applications, filed by applicants, to decide whether to grant a patent for an invention. The patents granted by the European Patent Office...

patent family is a set of patents or patent applications in various countries in relation to a single invention, for example when a first application...

relating to the application. Divisional patent application – type of patent application which contains matter from a previously filed application (the so-called...

international patent application (see Patent Cooperation Treaty), but can proceed as a divisional application from an international patent application that is...

granting of European patents, via a single, harmonised procedure before the European Patent Office (EPO). A single patent application, in one language, may...

This is a divisional application Ser. No. 08/324,558, filed 18 Oct. 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,426,464 which is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/004...

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a common supranational patent court of 18 member states of the European Union, which opened on 1 June 2023. It hears...

The European patent with unitary effect, also known as the unitary patent, is a European patent which benefits from unitary effect in the participating...

on the application of Article 65 of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents and sometimes referred to as the London Protocol, is a patent law agreement...

other patent systems. Article 39 states that a person who is the first to file an application for a patent for an invention may obtain that patent, rather...

application. Divisional applications filed voluntarily may be susceptible to attacks on the grounds of double patenting. However, where a divisional is...

28.2 of the Patent Act: 28.2 (1) The subject-matter defined by a claim in an application for a patent in Canada (the "pending application") must not have...

and a standardized application format. It helps expand established programs of American industry to file foreign patent applications, and encourages smaller...

International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA) for patent applications filed in accordance with the Patent Co-operation Treaty since 31 March 1980. Australia...