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Is there any benefit to expressly abandoning a patent application?

10/24/2017

 
Yes.  With an express abandonment, you can get a refund of the search fee and excess claim fees.  The form to use is PTO/SB/24B.

Thus, in a situation where you forgot to include an important embodiment in an original application, rather than filing a CIP, you might instead opt to expressly abandon the original application, and refile.  Granted, you will lose your priority date.  But depending on the situation -- the priority date may not be too much of a loss if the new application is planned on being filed shortly after the original application was filed.

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