PCT claiming priority of CIP

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Hi, Can you please advise?
We filed a utility application in the US about 14 months ago, 4 months later we filed a CIP claiming its priority and 10 months after the filing of the CIP we filed a PCT application claiming the priority of the CIP.
The first utility application will be published in two months. The question is-- how will this affect, if at all, the priority date of the PCT (which currently is the filing date of the CIP), and will the first utility application be used as prior art against us?

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With all due respect Steven, Jean Jacques, Benjamin, I have to differ. The claim to priority is valid (claim to the first patent application means the first application in which that invention with its CIP limitations was disclosed) - it simply means that your PCT is imputed the date of the CIP. Therefore any earlier application that gets published (in this case the parent) will be prior art.
Remember that the PCT is a placeholder for subsequent nationally and regionally prosecuted patent applications. Those jurisdictions will look at the prior art available prior to the CIP date (since your PCT claimed priority from the CIP). Therefore it comes down to the claim language. Insofar as your claims are novel and inventive/non-obvious over the parent case (in other words the limitations provided by the CIP are not obvious in light of the published parent case), your claims should be allowed in subsequent national and regional applications.

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