2019-12-17
xml.standards@wipo.int
http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/AFPatent/V2_0/ReleaseNotes.pdf
Authority file for patent documents provided by patent offices according to WIPO Standard ST.37
List of patent documents published by industrial property offices grouped according to their ST.16 kind-of-document codes for a given date range
Provide definition file information relating to this associated authority file, including file coverage
An authority file entry consists of data required to uniquely identify a patent publication according to WIPO ST.37
Indicates that the authority file has been grouped, or not, according to one of the defined categories
Exception code as indicated in WIPO ST.37
Data coverage summary by exception code including total quantity of documents
Collection of data coverage summary by exception code
A set of Exception codes, particularly the codes N, W and X, and their descriptions as defined by the IP Office, which are different from definitions in WIPO ST.37
A different or specific description of an exception code, which an IP Office uses in their authority file
List of exception codes that have a different or specific definition in use by the IP Office rather than the definitions of exception codes defined in WIPO ST.37
Defective publication documents
The document was deleted after the publication
Publication number allocated by the IPO representing a PCT national/regional phase entry (for example Euro-PCT). No corresponding document published. A Euro-PCT application is an international (PCT) patent application that entered the European regional phase
Published document is missing
This code is for Office internal-use and the code description for 'N' must be provided using ExceptionCodeDefinition, for instance in the IP Office's Authority Definition File
Document available only on paper
Reissued publication
Unknown publication number, for example, when during compilation of the authority file one or a list of publication number(s) has been found in the database, but the corresponding document(s) is(are) missing without known cause. Typically this code can indicatecould be a database error that requires further analysis
This code is for Office internal-use and the code description for 'W' must be provided using ExceptionCodeDefinition, for instance in the IP Office's Authority Definition File
The use of code 'X' must be described in the IP Office's Authority Definition File
Identifies how the authority files has been grouped i.e., by date, publication-level or document-kind code
Date
Publication level
Document kind
Data coverage summary by kind code including document total quantity
Collection of data coverage summary by kind code
A range of patent publication numbers which are included within this authority file
A specific release version of ST.37 XML Schema