filing-date

Element Title: Filing Date

Element Description: The date the application was filed.

For domestic filing data this is a date assigned by the PTO that identifies when a patent application meets certain criteria to qualify as having been 'filed'. For foreign priority data it is the filing data of the priority application.

Element Content:

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Element is Located in:

domestic-filing-data, foreign-priority-data

Element Attributes:

Name	Type	Default Value	Example	Description
st32-name	CDATA	"B220, B320"	In DTD for reference only	Data mapping to Grant Red Book/ST32
inid-code	CDATA			INID code displayed on the photocomposed page

Element Markup Instructions: The date formatted as YYYYMMDD, that is, a four-digit year, two-digit month with leading zero, two-digit day with leading zero.

Element Example:

<filing-date>20001129</filing-date>