country
Country
An abbreviation or code that names a country. This is information that can be used to identify a country that granted a patent or to provide a machine-comparable form of the name of a country as an addition to the content of the <country> element.
Remarks
Best Practice: Although this attribute is optional and open to any value, for best practice, the country code should be provided whenever it is known, and the ISO 3166-1 2-letter alphabetic codes should be used, for example:
The complete list is available from ISO, in HTML, text-file, and XML-file
versions at the following location:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search (choose the country code button and search using the search icon).
US | United States |
|---|---|
GB | United Kingdom |
CA | Canada |
On the element <country>, archives and publishers can use this attribute to regularize the input for searching without altering the element content, for example, placing a country code in the attribute when the <country> element content is fully spelled out or uses a non-standard country abbreviation.
Used on these Elements:
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Text, numbers, or special characters | An abbreviation for a country, typically using the ISO 3166-1 two-letter alphabetic codes, for example, “US” for the United States of America. |
| Restriction | @country is an optional attribute; there is no default. |
Example 1
...
<award-group id="arda-511" award-type="contract">
<funding-source country="US">ARDA ACQUAINT</funding-source>
<principal-award-recipient>Berkeley</principal-award-recipient>
</award-group>
...Example 2
The @country attribute should use a strict vocabulary (such as the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 codes), but the element content
may be uncontrolled:
...
<address>
...
<country country="GB">United Kingdom</country>
</address>
...