<patentowner-ref> (Patent Owner Reference) Description .email comment.
Description
This element holds the name of one of the owners of a referenced patent, or "et al" to represent all secondary authors.
Note that this element can be replaced by the <patentowner-ref-text> element if it is necessary to retain the original layout and punctuation of the name.
Parent Elements
The elements listed below may directly contain this element. They are "parent" elements. Elements in referenced groups are included, up to two levels of group nesting.
Parent elements: <patentownerfield>
Model Diagram
The DTD model for this element:
--+(choice)
  |  
  |-- etal  
  |  
  |--+(sequence)
  |  |  
  | surname  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  | givenname  -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  | middlename (optional) -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  | suffix (optional and repeatable) -- (TEXT and elements)
  |  |  
  | query (optional and repeatable) -- TEXT
DTD Definition
The DTD contains the following element and attribute definitions (note that embedded links are to definitions within the DTD page of this guide):
<!ELEMENT patentowner-ref                (etal | (surname, givenname, middlename?, suffix*, query*))>
<!ATTLIST patentowner-ref
               %a-group-CommonIDAttrs;>
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Defined in DTD section Back Matter : References : Patent References
General Attributes (shared with other elements)
Common Optional ID Attributes (a-group-CommonIDAttrs)