copyright-statement

Element Title: Copyright Statement

Element Description: When copyrighted material appears within a patent application, the copyright-statement element is used to identify the copyrighted material.

Element copyright-statement is a group element containing a mixture of headings and paragraphs that describes the copyrighted materials and includes authorization language for its usage.

Element Content:

(heading|paragraph)+

Element is Located in:

subdoc-description

Element Attributes:

Name	Type	Default Value	Example	Description
id	ID	Required		Sequence number within the document. copyright-statements are numbered separately from other numbered series within the document.

Element Markup Instructions: The "authorization language" will contain the following wording:

A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to (copyright or mask work) protection. The (copyright or mask work) owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by any one of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all (copyright or mask work) rights whatsoever.

Element Example:

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