Counterpart

An application filed in a foreign patent office that is substantially similar to (like) the patent application filed with the USPTO and is based upon some or all of the same invention. The two applications would generally have the same applicant.

See 37 CFR 1.97.

Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Last reviewed October 2022

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