Template:Patent

This template is designed for simple citation of patents. Parameters are passed numerically:


 * 1) The patent number (no punctuation is allowed at this time)
 * 2) The prefix of the organization publishing the patent.
 * 3) *US - the U.S. Patent Office
 * 4) *EP - the European Patent Organisation (under the European Patent Convention)
 * 5) *WO - the World Intellectual Property Organisation (under the World Trade Organisation)
 * 6) *AU - IP Australia
 * 7) The suffix of a published patent version and/or other comments such as author name and title (this does not affect the generated URL)

Only the first parameter is required; if no publishing organization is specified, the U.S. is taken as the default.

The output is the patent number, a credit to the redirect site (currently www.patentlens.net), and a link pointing to a permalink for the patent chosen. This output should be enclosed within reference tags ( and  ) in the same way as Template:cite.

Note that patent application numbers are generally different from patent numbers.

Examples:



Result:
 * US Patent 6556992 via CAMBIA Patent Lens[1 ] – espacenet[2 ]



Result:
 * US Patent 6556992 "Method and system for rating patents and other intangible assets." via CAMBIA Patent Lens[3 ] – espacenet[4 ]

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Patent  via CAMBIA Patent Lens – espacenet