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A continuing application is a type of patent application filed while the parent application is still pending. It carries on the prosecution of some or all of the original application. There are different types of continuing applications, including:
For example, if an inventor filed a patent application for a new type of bicycle, but later realized that the application did not include all the claims they wanted to protect, they could file a continuation application to pursue those additional claims.