technical-data citations

technical-data citations

<citations> <patent-citations> <patcit load-source="docdb" ucid="WO-1994005639-A1"> <document-id format="epo"> <country>WO</country> <doc-number>1994005639</doc-number> <kind>A1</kind> </document-id> <sources> <source name="SEA" created-by-npl="N"/> </sources> </patcit> </patent-citations> <non-patent-citations> <nplcit> <text>Cerovsky a kol. (2008) Peptides 29, 992-1003</text> <sources> <source load-source="docdb"/> </sources> </nplcit> <nplcit> <text>Krishnakumari a Nagaraj (1997) J. Peptide Res. 50, 88-93</text> <sources> <source load-source="docdb"/> </sources> </nplcit> <nplcit> <text>Kuhn-Nentwig (2003) Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 60, 2651-2668</text> <sources> <source load-source="docdb"/> </sources> </nplcit> <nplcit> <text>Otvos a kol. (2000) J. Peptide Sci. 6, 497-511</text> <sources> <source load-source="docdb"/> </sources> </nplcit> </non-patent-citations> </citations>



Backward citations are provided for the following countries: AT, AU, BE, CH, CN, DK (from 1965), EP, ES, FR, GB, KR, JP, LU, NL, RU, TW, US (from 1948), and WO. Rich citation data (which includes PCT search report-type passages, categories, and claim information) is available for all searches made at the EPO. Forward citations are only available through our Citation Service.

Citations are reported with the document to which they are related.

technical-data/citations/patent-citations/patcit

Attribute

Description

Attribute

Description

dnum

Document number

dnum-type

Document number type. Populated with "application" if the citation refers to an application. If no dnum-type is present, then the citation is referencing a publication.

Element

Description

Element

Description

text

May be populated when document information has not been parsed into document-id, e.g., PCT/JP2014/052879

document-id

Unique identifier of the document being cited. See below for details.

sources

Source of the citation

cit:rel-passage

Relevant passage within the cited document

cit:category

Indicates the relevance of the citation. See Citation Source Categories for a list of categories.

cit:rel-claims

Relevant claims within the cited document

corresponding-docs

Patent document-ids and NPL reference numbers embedded in NPL citations

patent-citations/patcit/document-id

Attribute

Description

Attribute

Description

format

Designates normalized or non-normalized format of the document-id 

Note that even in original format, the data may be normalized by removing check digits, slashes or hyphens. However, the order of tokens is never changed.

Element

INID

Description

Element

INID

Description

country

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Country of the publication being cited. Country is represented by a standard 2-character code based on WIPO ST.3.

doc-number

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Document number of the publication being cited. doc-number is generally provided in DOCDB-normalized format. An exception to this is made for WO documents, where the doc-number is normalized to YYYYnnnnnn. 

Patent document numbering is a complex subject, as the examples below illustrate:



Patent Authority

Patent Number

US

3732068



RE31783

US (Plant)

5382

US (Design)

D436240

EP

0129539

WO

1985000002

JP

60000013



2006000022

DE

3244404


For a complete discussion of document numbers over time and over multiple authorities, see: Number format concordance - publication numbers at 
https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/helpful-resources/data/tables/regular.html.

kind

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Kind code of the publication being cited. The kind code is used to designate the publication stage of the document, including whether it is a published application or a granted patent. See ST.16.

rel-passage

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Relevant passage within the cited document

patent-citations/patcit/sources/source

Attribute

Description

Attribute

Description

name

Indicates when or by whom the citation was made. See Citation Sources for a list of sources.

created-by-npl

Y|N. "Y" indicates a patent citation that has been extracted from a non-patent source such as a journal or gazette.

category

Indicates the relevance of the citation. See Citation Source Categories for a list of categories.

patent-citations/patcit/cit:rel-passage/cit:passage

Element

Description

Element

Description

cit:pp

Page numbers within cited work

cit:ppf

Cited document page first

cit:ppl

Cited document page last

cit:column

Column numbers within cited work

cit:colf

Cited document column first

cit:coll

Cited document column last

cit:para

Referenced paragraph within cited work

cit:paraf

Cited document paragraph first

cit:paral

Cited document paragraph last

cit:line

Referenced line within cited work

cit:linef

Cited document line first

cit:linel

Cited document line last

cit:claim

Cited claim

cit:figure

Cited figure

cit:example

Cited example

cit:table

Cited table

cit:sequence

Cited sequence

cit:compound

Cited compound

cit:bookmark

Cited bookmark

technical-data/citations/non-patent-citations/nplcit

Element

INID

Description

Example

Element

INID

Description

Example

text

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Unstructured: the text may be a bibliographic reference to a book, journal, thesis, etc.; a reference to a database record; or a "See also" reference to a related publication.

RADLER et al., "Structure of DNA-Cationic Liposome Complexes: DNA Intercalation in Multilamellar Membranes in Distinct Interhelical Packing Regimes", SCIENCE, 07 February 1997, Vol. 275, pages 810-814, XP002924042.

sources



Source of the citation



cit:article



Article citation within a host document



cit:book



Book citation



cit:online



Online citation



cit:othercit



Other citation



cit:source-doc



Patent number extracted from the non-patent literature citation



cit:rel-passage



Relevant passage within the cited document

column 2, lines 18-27; table I, RI-80, RI-103

cit:category



Indicates the relevance of the citation. See Citation Source Categories for a list of categories.

Y

cit:rel-claims



Relevant claims within the cited document

1,24-27

corresponding-docs



Patent document-ids and NPL reference numbers embedded in NPL citations



The following sub-elements may occur within the elements listed above:

Element

Description

Element

Description

cit:author

Author

cit:atl

Article title

cit:subname

Subordinate responsibility

subname-type

Type of subordinate responsibility, e.g., editor, translator, or other-subname-type

cit:serial

Serial citation data

cit:newsgroup

News group

cit:sertitle

Serial title

cit:alttitle

Alternate title for serial

cit:issue

Issue designation

cit:imprint

Imprint

cit:pubdate

Publication date

cit:sdate

Start date used in pubdate 

cit:edate

End date used in pubdate 

cit:time

Time of publication

cit:descrip

Physical description of a book or serial

cit:notes

Notes about the serial

cit:pubid

Publisher's unique identifier

cit:vid

Volume identifier/number

cit:ino

Issue number

cit:doi

Digital Object Identifier

cit:issn

International Standard Serial Number

cit:isbn

International Standard Book Number

cit:cpyrt

Copyright info

cit:absno

Abstract number

cit:location

Location of the reference within the cited work

cit:class

Class

cit:keyword

Keywords

cit:artid

Unique article identifier

cit:srchdate

Date of search/retrieval

cit:refno

Reference number

cit:book-title

Title of the cited book

cit:conference

Conference citation

cit:conftitle

Conference title

cit:confno

Conference number

cit:confplace

Place of conference

cit:confsponsor

Conference sponsor

cit:subtitle

Book subtitle

cit:edition

Edition statement

cit:series

Series statement

cit:mst

Monographic series title

cit:msn

Monographic series number

cit:serpart

Part within a serial or book, or the book part

cit:sersect

Serial section or book, or the book part

cit:chapter

Chapter, normally in a book

cit:pp

Page numbers within cited work

cit:column

Column numbers within cited work

cit:para

Referenced paragraph within cited work

cit:line

Referenced line within cited work

cit:bookno

Book number

cit:online-title

Title within electronic resource

cit:hosttitle

Title of the host document/database

cit:history

History of the article

cit:received

Date article was received

cit:accepted

Date article was accepted

cit:revised

Date article was revised

cit:misc

Miscellaneous information relating to the history of the article

cit:hostno

Numeration within host document

cit:avail

Availability and access

cit:datecit

Date cited

cit:srchterm

Search terms

Further Reading

For information about the Solr search fields associated with this container, see Citations.