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<p class="MsoNormal">My recollection is that there are some obscure countries that have an issue with international applications whose disclosures aren’t the same or materially the same as the priority document. As a result, if there are improvements that
you want to include in the international application and you want to enter those countries, you have to file a CIP or a non-provisional (if the original filing is a provisional application) in the US before or contemporaneously with the filing of the international
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