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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 “continuation of application No. [X], filed on [Date].” That App. No. [X] is a provisional, 63-series. The ADS also provided
that the application is a “continuation” 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 “This application is a nonprovisional filing with priority to a provisional application, No. [X], filed on [Date].”
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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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