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USPTO MPEP › Chapter 0800 - Restriction in Applications Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 111; Double Patenting › MPEP § 802.02

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Restriction is the practice of requiring an applicant to elect a single

claimed invention (e.g., a combination or subcombination invention, a product or process

invention, a species within a genus) for examination when two or more independent

inventions and/or two or more distinct inventions are claimed in an application.

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