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Red Book ICE (Grants and Applications)
Weekly Status Report - July 15, 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) July 15, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated July 1, 2005. Effective with Red Book Patent Grant issue of August 2, 2005 and Red Book Patent Application issue of August 4, 2005, the following 14 private use character entities will either be replaced with a <custom-character> tag or custom-character processing instruction: Dotbhalfcircle Dotthalfcircle Dotlhalfcircle Dotrhalfcircle Lhalfcircle Quadbond Rhalfcircle Ovalhollow Ovalsolid Linevertsplit Parenopenst Parenclosest Brketopenst Brketclosest The USPTO is working on a DTD, style sheet and character count in an xml file identifying all entities (ISO or Unicode) in the issue including all descriptive text expressions, and character pullouts.
2	March 3, 2005	MathML contains invalid line end characters in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) July 15, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated July 1, 2005. Mathml "line end" characters and Mathml private use characters are "problematic" when converted to hexadecimal Unicode, especially when the conversion is based on the Mathml entity files. Effective with Red Book Patent Grant issue of August 16, 2005 and Red Book Application issue of August 18, 2005, in-line Mathml markup private use entities will retain their original entity form.
3	March 4, 2005	Some num attribute values include the word “header-“ as a prefix in Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) July 15, 2005 - Closed - 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 July 15, 2005 - Closed - 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) July 15, 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) July 15, 2005 - Closed - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated July 1, 2005. This problem was resolved beginning with the Red Book files disseminated the week of May 30, 2005. If this problem is encountered in subsequent files, please bring it to the USPTO's attention.
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 July 15, 2005 - Closed - 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) July 15, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated July 1, 2005. This will be resolved with Red Book files for the week of August 1, 2005. The USPTO is also investigating the use of the emerging STIX Fonts (http://www.stixfonts.org/) for diacritical character markup.
9	April 5, 2005	Synchronizing num attribute values between Yellow Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) and Red Book (Patent Grants and Patent Applications) July 15, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated July 1, 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. July 15, 2005 - Closed - 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. July 15, 2005 - Closed - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated April 22, 2005 and the Red Book ICE Status Report dated June 3, 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. July 15, 2005 - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated May 27, 2005.
13	June 3, 2005	The Classification Locarno element for all Design documents will contain an “8”. July 15, 2005 – Closed - Please reference the Red Book ICE Status Report dated June 3, 2005.
14	June 10, 2005	The appearance of IPC Reform that will be present in Red Book ICE for published applications and patent grants beginning January 2006. July 15, 2005 - Please reference FAQ 74 for a detailed description of this change. Test data will be available in the very near future.

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