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Broader claim for a Provisional application after non-provisional application - same invention

Update: Turns out there was an earlier provisional, so this answer no longer applies. I've left it for posterity. Because the first non-provisional was filed less than a year ago, a simple approach …
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Format of Continuation-In-Part Specification and Claims

By way of preface, I note that this answer only really applies to the US. No other country has continuations-in-part, and most countries don't allow incorporation by reference. I would suggest that y …
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Adding useful and unobvious functionality to existing patent

Would Bob need to obtain permission from Alice to use her patent? Yes, in the countries that Alice has a patent, Bob would need to obtain a licence before he could manufacture and sell his produc …
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Risks of splitting invention into multiple patents?

This is opinion, as I'm not aware of any empirical way to measure this. I would suggest that scenario B should always be used. Assuming you have two separable inventions, then it makes sense that yo …
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