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This tag should be applied to questions involving divisional patent applications or patents granted from divisional applications.

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Parent of a Divisional

First, the applicant is not instructed by the examiner to file a divisional. … The applicant can decide on their own to cancel claims and refile them in a divisional. …
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Divisional Application with broader claim in EPO

From the EPO 1.4 Examination of a divisional application The substantive examination of a divisional application should in principle be carried out as for any other application but the following special … The first is the claims of the divisional do not need to be among the originally filed claims and the second is that there is no problem if the divisional claims are broader than claims originally filed …
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Is it possible to patent something that was disclosed in a priority application?

This is definitely possible as it relates to the US - (b) Subject to the conditions and requirements of this paragraph, if all or a portion of the specification or drawing(s) is inadvertently omitted …
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How do divisional patent applications work?

The original application must still be pending when the divisional application is filed and no new matter can be added. The purpose is to claim something already disclosed but not yet claimed. …
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PCT application: when is the last chance to file divisional applications?

You can do this, incurring large "divisional" related expenses, early in the process. … Normally the deadline to file a divisional will be before the parent application issues. …
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