Editing Priority right (section)

=== Internal priority rights ===
Some priority rights, called "internal priority rights", are defined by some national laws.<ref>For instance, in Canada: [[Manual of Patent Office Practice]] (MOPOP), [http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/patents/mopop/ch07-e.pdf ''Chapter 7: Internal priority and convention priority''].</ref> Such internal priority right allows an applicant who filed a first application in a given country to claim the priority of the first application when filing a subsequent application in the same country.

The Paris Convention does not cover internal priority rights. See, e.g., [[provisional application]] in the US.