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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 ...
Capital improvement plan, in urban planning; Citizen Information Project in the UK; Classification of Instructional Programs, US Department of Education; Commercial Import Program, US-South Vietnam; Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the EU; Combat Identification Panel, a US identify-friend-or-foe device; Continuation in Part ...
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.
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 George W. Bush administration put the Continuity of Operations plan into effect for the first time directly following the September 11 attacks.Their implementation involved a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior officials and other government workers from every federal executive department and other parts of the executive branch in two secure bunkers on the East Coast.
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.
Proposition 6 asks California voters to amend the state Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, which would end forced labor in state prisons.
[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 ...