parent-child

Element Title: Parent Child Document Relationship

Element Description: Element parent-child identifies the relationship between a pair of documents. It is a group element consisting of the child document identification, the parent document identification, the parent document current status, and optionally the parent patent (granted).

Paired document relationships (parent-child) consists of:
    - a-371-of-international
    - continuation-in-part-of
    - continuation-of
    - continuing-reissue-of
    - division-of
    - reissue-of
    - substitution-for

Element Content:

(child,parent,parent-status,parent-patent?)

Element is Located in:

a-371-of-international, continuation-in-part-of, continuation-of, continuing-reissue-of, division-of, reissue-of, substitution-for

Element Attributes: None

Element Markup Instructions: none

Element Example:

<parent-child>
    <child>
        <document-id>
            <doc-number>09725796</doc-number>
            <kind-code>A1</kind-code>
            <document-date>20001129</document-date>
        </document-id>
    </child>
    <parent>
        <document-id>
            <doc-number>09375495</doc-number>
            <document-date>19990817</document-date>
            <country-code>US</country-code>
        </document-id>
    </parent>
    <parent-status>PENDING</parent-status>
</parent-child>