What should you do?  You have a provisional patent application which was filed pre-AIA (i.e., before March 16, 2013). You want to file a non provisional patent application with additional subject matter and claim priority to the provisional patent application while still maintaining first to invent status of the subject matter you filed in your [...]

Continuation, divisional and continuation-in-part (CIP) applications are related to the filing of the prior filed patent application by a claim of priority.  The prior filed patent application may be referred to as the parent or base application.  The continuation, divisional and CIP application may be referred to as the child application. The simplified definition for [...]