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Should I file a divisional?
A short decision with a hard deadline attached.
Probably no divisional is needed.
Check twice before concluding - specifications routinely describe more than the claims cover, and the gap is easy to miss.
- Compare the description against the claims, section by section.
- Ask whether a competitor could practise anything described in the specification without infringing the claims.
- If the answer is yes, that is the divisional.
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