CIP

See Application, Continuation-in-part.

Abbreviation for "Continuation-in-Part". When one wishes to add new material to a pending patent application the resulting application is referred to as a CIP.

Continuation-in-Part

an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application and adding matter not disclosed in the earlier nonprovisional application

-- see MPEP 201.08 for more