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2.31.2.2 Association with Provisional Applications

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The Act does not allow for “division” of an innovation patent application from a provisional application.  However, one or more innovation patent applications may be “associated” with one or more provisional applications in order to take advantage of earlier disclosure in the provisional application(s).

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