XML Schema defining the XML Metadata Format to represent Patents. This XML Schema is available at http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:patent XML Metdata Format for Patents NISO Committee AX, OpenURL Standard Committee This XML Schema defines an XML Metadata Format to express properties of Patents http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:patent info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:patent 2004-01-01 The root element "patent" contains child elements that are used to express properties of Patents The "inventors" element contains child elements that are used to express the inventors of a patent. The "inventors" element is not repeatable, it contains all inventors, and allows for the indication of the position of the inventor in the patent's list of inventors Patent title, e.g. "Multi-purpose, species discriminating bird feeder". Country of publication, e.g. "United States" Country of publication code in ISO 2-character format (ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 code elements), e.g. "US" The patent kind code indicates the stage of the patent. Kind codes are meaningful within a country code, ie.e. "AU A1". Application country code, that is, the country in which the patent application was made (mainly used for patents pending). Expressed in ISO 2-character format (ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 code elements), e.g. "US" Application number assigned to the patent, e.g. "2000028896" Patent number.This number is usually combined with the country code for retrieval Date patent was issued in the ISO 8601 form CCYY-MM-DD Year the patent-application was made Date the patent-application was made, in the ISO 8601 form CCYY-MM-DD Patent assignee, e.g. "IBM", "Microsoft Corporation" Publication date of the patent, in the ISO 8601 form CCYY-MM-DD Priority application date, in the ISO 8601 form CCYY-MM-DD The inventor's full name, e.g. "Smith, Fred M", "Harry S. Truman" The inventor's family name. This may be more than one word. In many citations, the inventor's family name is recorded first and is followed by a comma, e.g. Smith, Fred James is recorded as "invlast=smith" The inventor's given name or names or initials. This data element may contain multiple words and punctuation, e.g. "Fred F", "Fred James"