UNITY OF INVENTION AND DIVISIONAL APPLICATIONS IN CANADA

In the United States, a patent application may be filed based on an earlier filed “parent” application.  Such applications include divisional applications and continuation applications.  Continuation application and divisional applications have the same specification as the parent application but normally have different claims.  Continuation-in-part (CIP) applications are also available in the United States.  However, CIPs include subject matter not originally disclosed in the parent application.  Of these types of applications available in the United States, only divisional applications are available...