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A "continuation-in-part" application ("CIP" or "CIP application") is one in which the applicant adds subject matter not disclosed in the parent patent application, but repeats a substantial portion of the parent's specification, and shares at least one inventor with the parent application. The CIP application is a convenient way to claim ...
[6] The practice relating to the filing of divisional applications under the EPC was clarified by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO in June 2007. The Board held that a divisional application which on filing contained subject-matter extending beyond the content of the earlier application as filed could be amended later to remove the ...
Before the European Patent Office (EPO), divisional applications can be filed under Article 76 EPC.A European divisional application is a new application which is separate and independent from the parent application unless specific provisions in the European Patent Convention (EPC) require something different.
The original patent term under the 1790 Patent Act was decided individually for each patent, but "not exceeding fourteen years". The 1836 Patent Act (5 Stat. 117, 119, 5) provided (in addition to the fourteen-year term) an extension "for the term of seven years from and after the expiration of the first term" in certain circumstances, when the inventor hasn't got "a reasonable remuneration for ...
The California FAIR Plan is an insurance program of last resort for homeowners in high-risk areas of the Golden State who are unable to obtain fire coverage in the private insurance market.
A capital improvement plan (CIP), or capital improvement program, is a short-range plan, usually four to ten years, that identifies capital projects and equipment purchases, provides a planning schedule and identifies options for financing the plan.
Today, in part due to changing views of jailing child offenders, fewer than 90 youth are in juvenile detention, according to Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools Dave Gordon. And most of ...
The plan–do–check–act cycle is an example of a continual improvement process. The PDCA (plan, do, check, act) or (plan, do, check, adjust) cycle supports continuous improvement and kaizen. It provides a process for improvement which can be used since the early design (planning) stage of any process, system, product or service.