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908 B
Markdown
27 lines
908 B
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Subpatents are a system introduced in 1919 NE by the Western Sector
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government to allow companies to easily license the rights to patents
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as if they owned the patent.
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Subpatent names are formatted as `IMPORTANCE-SECTOR-SECTIONS-NUMBER`.
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`IMPORTANCE` may be one of:
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- `V` / Vital :: Important in all circumstances
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- `E` / Essential :: Important during galaxy-wide emergency
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- `N` / Normal :: Important during shortages
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- `X` / Extraneous :: Not vital in any circumstance
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`SECTOR` may be the abbreviation of any sector. Common are `E` and `W`
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for East and West.
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`SECTIONS` is a `/` separated list of sections, which may be:
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- `FO` :: Flooring
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- `MA` :: Materials
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`NUMBER` is the number of the subpatent, which is a linearly
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increasing integer starting at 1. The number is used to discriminate
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subpatents with the same importance/sector/sections fields.
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