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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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