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Is there an advantage to not filing for express abandonment upon the discovery that your original application is missing a critical embodiment?

10/25/2017

 
Yes.  Your second filed application may be restricted.  In such a case, you might want to avoid abandoning the first filed application.  That way, you can use that application to pursue the non-elected species.

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