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<p>As a matter of terminology, what we are talking about is not <i><b>priority</b></i>.
What we are talking about is <i><b>domestic benefit</b></i>
claims under your choice of 35 USC § 119(e) or 35 USC § 120.</p>
<p>Close reading of those sections of 35 USC reveal that it is
legally impossible for a US non-provisional application to be a
"continuation" of a US provisional. If there is going to be any
connection between your US provisional and your US
non-provisional, that connection is limited to 35 USC § 119(e).</p>
<p>It would be possible to engineer something that would look like a
US non-provisional being a continuation of a US provisional. You
would obtain a grant of a petition to convert the US provisional
into a US non-provisional. At that point you could tie the
converted provisional to the later US non-provisional by means of
35 USC § 120.</p>
<p>It looks like you are maybe sort of asking "if I were to run down
to the court house seeking a declaratory judgment that this US
patent expires a year earlier than you would think, because of
this word salad in the specification of the patent, and because of
this word salad on the front page of the publication, and because
of this word salad in the ADS, would you win?"</p>
<p>My prediction, assuming the patent owner were represented by
competent counsel, is the court would decline to so judge. My
prediction is that the court would say something along these
lines:</p>
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<p>It is impossible for a US non-provisional application to claim
domestic benefit from a US provisional under 35 USC § 120. The
patent term of a patent issuing therefrom runs from the earliest
US non-provisional filing date, and that is not the same thing
as the filing date of any US provisional application.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/3/2024 10:56 AM, Katherine Koenig
via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For priority/benefit claims, does the ADS
or statement in the Specification control?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On a published application, the Related US
Application Data (1<sup>st</sup> page) states the application
is a \u201ccontinuation of application No. [X], filed on [Date].\u201d
That App. No. [X] is a provisional, 63-series. The ADS also
provided that the application is a \u201ccontinuation\u201d of App. No.
[X] (provisional, 63-series). The application was filed by a
pro se inventor, so this was (I assume) an inadvertent error.
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, the body of the Specification
sates \u201cThis application is a nonprovisional filing with
priority to a provisional application, No. [X], filed on
[Date].\u201d
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can the application properly be considered
to be a continuation of the earlier provisional for patent
term calculation? In other words, does patent term begin at
the provisional filing date or the current application filing
date?
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