continuation

See Application, Continuation.

Unlike a CIP, a continuation application does not add any new material. A continuation application may be filed, for example, after a final rejection by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in order to maintain benefit of the original filing date.

a second application for the same invention claimed in a prior nonprovisional application and filed before the first application becomes abandoned or patented

-- see MPEP 201.07 for more

The treatment of more than one physical "line" as a single logical line. "Makefile" lines are continued by putting a backslash before the "newline". Mail headers as defined by RFC 822 are continued by putting a space or tab after the newline. In general, lines in Perl do not need any form of continuation mark, because "whitespace" (including newlines) is gleefully ignored. Usually.