Posts Tagged ‘restriction practice’

The name “Bypass Application” came about by how a US/PCT application is filed – i.e., when a bypass application is filed, the National Stage of a PCT application is bypassed.   Simply put, instead of filing a regular US national phase application, a new US application that is a continuation or continuation-in-part of the previously-filed & currently pending PCT application (with at least one common inventor) is filed.   Additional requirements also apply and should be reviewed before the filing of an application.