30 September 2019AmericasKene Gallois and Luis Felipe Maciel da Silva
Divisional applications: Procedural manoeuvres pay off
The decision to divide a patent application can be justified in several ways, and although one possibility is lack of unity of invention detected during the examination phase, most of the time it will depend on the applicant’s commercial strategies.
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