<patent>

Patent Number, Cited

As part of a bibliographic reference, the identification information (typically the patent number, or number and name) for a cited patent

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
country Country

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  patent       (#PCDATA %patent-elements;)*                 >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | bold | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | named-content | styled-content | sub | sup)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <nlm-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):

...
<ref>
<element-citation publication-type="patent">
<person-group person-group-type="inventor">
<name>
<surname>Blanco</surname>
<given-names>Ernesto E</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Meade</surname>
<given-names>John C</given-names>
</name>
<name>
<surname>Richards</surname>
<given-names>William D</given-names>
</name>
</person-group>
<collab collab-type="assignee">Ophthalmic Ventures</collab>
<article-title>Surgical Stapling system</article-title>
<source>US patent</source>
<patent>4,969,591</patent>
<year>1990</year>
<month>11</month>
<day>13</day>
</element-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):

...
<ref>
<mixed-citation publication-type="patent">
<string-name><surname>Blanco</surname>
<given-names>Ernesto E</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Meade</surname>
<given-names>John C</given-names></string-name>,
<string-name><surname>Richards</surname>
<given-names>William D</given-names></string-name>,
<comment>inventors</comment>;
<collab collab-type="assignee">Ophthalmic Ventures</collab>,
<comment>assignee</comment>.
<article-title>Surgical Stapling system</article-title>.
<source>US patent</source>.
<patent>4,969,591</patent>.
<year>1990</year>/<month>11</month>/<day>13</day>.
</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Module

references3.ent