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Redesign Assignment and Patent Database (view source)
Revision as of 15:37, 3 November 2017
, 15:37, 3 November 2017→Reissue Patents
** Relation
** Document Number
Note about fields related to the parent document and/or parent grant document:
The structure of the above fields related to a reissue patent is very odd and varies by XML version. For example, for most of the XML version, parent grant document falls under parent document and has it's own document number, date, country, document ID, kind, etc. The parent doc field falls under relation, which falls under reissue.
However, in XML41, parent document falls under relation and a new category - US Reexamination Reissue Merger. The information pertaining to the child documentation also fall under both relation and US Reexamination Reissue Merger. It's possible that during the time period this XML version represents, there were two types of reissue patents - some reexamination related to a merger and a standard reissue. With discrepancies like these, we'll have to determine in the end we want to stick with the fields as they are designed above (in which cases the information about a parent doc or parent grant document is stored the same whether it is a reissue or an Reexamination Reissue, or if these two classifications are different enough to warrant duplicate fields in the table.
===Design Patents===
