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Special Considerations for Assigning a Continuation-In-Part Patent Application

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held in Causam Enterprises, Inc. v. International Trade Commission that the language “all divisions, reissues, continuations and extensions thereof” in an assignment document does NOT cover continuation-in-part applications. 
Furthermore, there are almost no reasons to file a continuation-in-part application. 
Read more about the case and considerations for filing applications. 

Authors:

 

 

 

William C. Rowland
william.rowland@bipc.com

 

 

 


 
 

 

 

Duane A. Stewart, III
duane.stewart@bipc.com