continuity-data

Element Title: Continuity Data

Element Description: This is a group element containing various parent-child relationships that describe the continuity data of the application in hand. It contains one or more division-of, continuations, a-371-of-international, substitution-for, reissue-of, non-provisional-of-provisional, and corrected-republication-of parent-child relationships.

Element Content:

((division-of|continuations|a-371-of-international|substitution-for|
  reissue-of|non-provisional-of-provisional|corrected-republication-of)+)

Element is Located in:

subdoc-bibliographic-information

Element Attributes:

Name	Type	Default Value	Example	Description
st32-name	CDATA	"B600" (fixed)	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: Element continuity-data utilizes both paired document relationships and single relationships to describe related U.S. application data.

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

Unpaired document relationships imply that the application in hand is the child and the identified document is the parent. They consist of:

    - non-provisional-of-provisional
    - corrected-republication-of

Element Example:

<continuity-data>
    <division-of>
        <parent-child>
            <child>
                <document-id>
                    <doc-number>09725183</doc-number>
                    <kind-code>A1</kind-code>
                    <document-date>20001129</document-date>
                </document-id>
            </child>
            <parent>
                <document-id>
                    <doc-number>09007333</doc-number>
                    <document-date>19980115</document-date>
                    <country-code>US</country-code>
                </document-id>
            </parent>
            <parent-status>GRANTED</parent-status>
            <parent-patent>
                <document-id>
                    <doc-number>6177134</doc-number>
                    <country-code>US</country-code>
                </document-id>
            </parent-patent>
        </parent-child>
    </division-of>
</continuity-data>