<div dir="ltr">What REALLY controls is the filing receipt. If that doesn't say what you want it to say. file a petition to correct/add omitted benefit claim.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 12:57\u202fPM Katherine Koenig via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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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">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">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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