The specifics of the enforceable boundaries of your protection are forever fixed to the claims you chose to pursue with your initial application - but not necessarily with the full breadth of your invention as conceived.
Continuations, on the other hand, allow patent owners to keep patent families open, enabling them to claim and capture the full scope of their innovation with hindsight.
Keeping a patent family open comes with significant long-term strategic benefits that can make your patents considerably more robust and more valuable.
Continuations keep options open for proactively and defensively helping to hedge against case law changes, working as prior art backstops with the PTAB.
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