Translation of 出証意 and 長官殿


These are from a patent related document and I can't understand very well.

They are used like these：

1) 特許庁長官殿 2) 出証意2012

Can anyone help me?




長官 is the top person of that institute. 殿 is a polite affix attached after
people's name or title in business or formal occasions, contrasted with 様 used
in personal occasions. For the second part, it is not an ordinary Japanese,
and my guess is that it is an abbreviated code used for sorting the documents,
shortened from something like "出願証 意匠 2012年" "proof of application,
classification: design, submitted year: 2012".

証 may stand for something more or different.

