*2.3.1 Ordinary application*

• Provisional Application:

A Provisional Patent Application is generally filed when your invention is still in progress and filing such provisional application will acquire a priority date. The Provisional application will not be published nor examined.

• Non-Provisional Application:

Non- Provisional Application to be filed within 12 months from the date of filing of the provisional specification to keep the patent application in active state and such non-provisional application comprises of the detailed description which gives sufficient disclosure of the invention. Non-provisional application will be further published in respective national patent journal and examined further on request of the applicant.

• Patent of Addition or Continuation-In-Part application:

The applicant can file a patent of addition (or Continuation-In-Part application) [4] if there is a modification or improvement of the invention which has already been applied for or patented. A patent of addition can only be granted after the grant of the parent patent.

• Divisional Application:

Divisional application is filed if the applicant wishes to divide an application to furnish two or more applications, if the parent application claims for more than one invention. The priority date for such divisional application is similar to that of the parent application.
