type

(60) Reference to other legally related domestic document(s) 
(61) Related by addition 
(62) Related by division 
(63) Related by continuation 
(64) Related by reissue 
(65) Related by being the same application 
(66) Related by filing after abandonment 
(67) Related by filing as a utility model after filing as a patent 
(68) Related by filing for a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC)

Each parent/child pair includes a description of the relationship between the parent and child. 
Unpaired document relationships imply that the application at hand is the child and the identified document is the parent (non-provisional-of-provisional or corrected-republication-of).

Values include:

• • a-371-of-international
  • addition
  • continuation
  • continuation-in-part
  • continuing-reissue
  • correction
  • division
  • division-into
  • later-filed-application
  • previously-filed-application
  • provisional
  • reexamination
  • reissue
  • related-publication
  • substitution
  • us-divisional-reissue
  • us-provisional-application
  • us-reexamination-reissue-merger
  • utility-model-basis