2021-11-05 xml.standards@wipo.int http://www.wipo.int/standards/XMLSchema/AFPatent/V2_2/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 A code which indicates the language of the description if a text-searchable description is available, or otherwise the code values N (not available) or U (unknown) Where the text is not available, the indicator is the code N if the information is not available or the code U if it is unknown whether this information is available A two-letter language code indicates, for searchable text, the language made available by the Office either as the original language or an official language A code which indicates the language of the claims if a text-searchable claims is available, or otherwise the code values N (not available) or U (unknown) A code which indicates the language of the abstract if a text-searchable abstract is available, or otherwise the code values N (not available) or U (unknown) as defined in WIPO ST.37 Not available Unknown if available 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 exceptioncode, 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 indicate 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