human: Will Divisionals, Continuations-in-Part, Continuations, and/or Continued Prosecution Applications (CPA) filed on or after 11/29/00 (the effective date of the eighteen-month publication provisions of the AIPA), based on original applications filed before t
assistant: Yes. Any nonprovisonal application (other than for a design patent) filed on or after November 29, 2000 is subject to the eighteen-month publication provisions of the AIPA. This includes continuation, divisional, and continuation-in-part applications of applications filed prior to November 29, 2000. It does not matter whether the continuing application was filed under 37 CFR 1.53(b), or as a CPA under 37 CFR 1.53(d). Since a request for a continued examination (RCE) under 37 CFR 1.114 is not a continuing application, filing a RCE of an application filed prior to November 29, 2000 will not make that application subject to the eighteen-month publication provisions of the AIPA.