How does the USPTO treat a ‘conditional’ request for a CPA?

The USPTO treats all ‘conditional’ requests for Continued Prosecution Applications (CPAs) as unconditional requests. According to MPEP ¶ 2.35:

Any “conditional” request for a CPA submitted as a separate paper is treated as an unconditional request for a CPA.

This means that once a conditional CPA request is submitted, it will be processed as a standard CPA, regardless of the applicant’s original intent.

For more information on CPA, visit: CPA.