continuous application
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 68 U.S. 317 - Godfrey v. Eames · 1863Most cited · 122 citing opinions
patent
if a party choose to withdraw his application for a patent, and pay the forfeit, intending at the time of such withdrawal to file a new petition, and he accordingly do so, the two petitions are to be considered as parts of the same transaction, and both as constituting one continuous application, within the meaning of the law.
How often courts cite the case defining “continuous application”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “continuous application” — 122 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.