However, the Japanese document itself has
priority data in the priority fields. The Japanese
document has a priority date of 19891201; the
U.S. patent shows a priority date of 19891210.
Q meaing 'question' does make sense here. But why
would it be on the 'correct' one? Also, I may be
missing how to truncate in EspaceNet, but without
truncation, there is no way to get a hit on the
Japanese document unless you are clairvoyant about
appending the 'Q'.
Depireux, Thierry wrote:
> Searching the priority US19890444651Q in Espacenet gives indeed a hit for
> JP3178135, but the bibliographic data of this document doesn't show any
> priority information in the priority field!
> By checking a little further, I found (i) that 19891210 was a sunday and
> (ii) that applications US19890444650 and US19890444652 were filed on
> 19891201.
> My conclusion is that the priority date 19891210 is an error and that the
> "Q" in the priority data in Espacenet should be a sort of "warning mark".
>
> Thierry DEPIREUX
>
> SOLVAY S.A.
> Intellectual Assets Management
> Information & Documentation Dept.
> e-mail: thierry.depireux@solvay.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: aengel@intlscience.com [SMTP:aengel@intlscience.com]
> > Sent: vendredi 23 juin 2000 17:01
> > To: piug
> > Subject: An EspaceNet question
> >
> > I came across the following priority number:
> >
> > Priority Number(s): US19890444651Q 19891201
> >
> > What does the 'Q' mean?
> >
> > The corresponding US patent is 4992388 which
> > has the priority number in EspaceNet of
> >
> > Priority Number(s): US19890444651 19891210
> >
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