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Red Book ICE (Grants and Applications) Open Issues
Weekly Status Report - June 3, 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)

June 3, 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)

June 3, 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)

June 3, 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

June 3, 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)

June 3, 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 and Patent Applications)

June 3, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 29, 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

June 3, 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)

June 3, 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)

June 3, 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.

June 3, 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.

June 3, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 22, 2005.

Resolution:

This only impacts Patent Grant Red Book and is limited to non-patent literature citations. In many cases within the Patent Citation element the <category> tag was incorrectly populated with "cited by other" instead of "cited by examiner". This has been corrected effective with the Patent Grant Red Book issue dated 6/7/2005.

12 April 19, 2005

The 371C-124-date is not included in the ICE version of Red Book. This date had been included in the previous ST.32 version of Red Book.

June 3, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated May 27, 2005.

13 June 3,
2005
June 3, 2005 – Please be aware, beginning with the Patent Grant Red Book issue dated 6/7/2005, that the <edition> tag within the Classification Locarno element for all Design documents will contain an “8”.

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