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Red Book ICE (Grants and Applications) Open Issues
Weekly Status Report - May 20, 2005

Item Number	Date Reported	Description and Status
1	December 14, 2004	Private use area Unicode characters cannot be rendered in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 2005.
2	March 3, 2005	MathML contains invalid line end characters in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 2005. The USPTO is evaluating recommendations provided by the data capture contractor.
3	March 4, 2005	Some num attribute values include the word “header-“ as a prefix in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) May 20, 2005 - This has been resolved as of April 22, 2005. Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 22, 2005.
4	March 8, 2005	Num attribute values not consistent between Patent Application Red Book and Patent Grant Red Book May 20, 2005 - This has been resolved as of April 22, 2005. Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 22, 2005.
5	March 14, 2005	Table “footnotes” no longer tagged as such in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 22, 2005
6	March 16, 2005	References to non-US patent documents missing “/” in some positions in Red Book (Patent Grants) May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 2005. The data capture contractor has identified the source of the problem and further information will be provided in the status report dated May 20, 2005. This issue only applies to Red Book (Patent Grants) and this will be corrected effective with Red Book issue May 31, 2005.
7	March 18, 2005	The appearance of the International Patent Classification (IPC) in the Patent Grant Data/XML v4.0 (ICE) beginning February 8, 2005 and in the Patent Application Data/XML v4.0 (ICE) beginning February 10, 2005 changed May 20, 2005 - This has been resolved as of April 15, 2005. Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 15, 2005.
8	April 4, 2005	Legacy descriptive text markup(e.g., <city>Schw{hacek over (a)}bisch Gm&#xfc;nd</city>) in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 2005.
9	April 5, 2005	Synchronizing num attribute values between Yellow Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) and Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 2005.
10	April 19, 2005	There were no prior publication data for 20050000097 in Red Book ICE although there are 3 documents present in the Yellow Book 2 image file. May 20, 2005 - This has been resolved as of May 13, 2005. Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 2005.
11	April 19, 2005	There is an inconsistency between Red Book ICE and Yellow Book 2 in indentification of References Cited by Examiner and References Cited by Others. May 20, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 22, 2005. The source of the problem has been identified and testing is in progress. This inconsistency only applies to Grant Red Book and will be corrected with the issue of June 7, 2005.

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