Intellectual Property and Assessing its Financial Value

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Intellectual Property and Assessing Its Financial Value

Continuing applications

US patent law allows applicants to file continuing patent applications

claiming the benefit of the disclosure and filing date of an earlier filed

co-pending application (“parent application”). The parent application

does not have to be the first or earliest filed application in a chain of

continuing applications; it just has to be a related application that is

co-pending at the time of filing. Continuing applications must share at

least one common inventor with the parent application, make a specific

claim of priority to the parent application, and be filed while the parent ...