Template:Patent/doc

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


 * 1) The prefix of the organization publishing the patent, examples are
 * 2) *US: U.S. Patent Office
 * 3) *EP: European Patent Organisation (under the European Patent Convention)
 * 4) *WO: World Intellectual Property Organization (under the United Nations)
 * 5) *DE: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
 * 6) The patent or patent application number (no punctuation is allowed at this time)
 * 7) string "application" (optional third parameter)
 * 8) Patent publication data such as author name and title (this does not affect the generated URL)

The output is the patent number, 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 journal.

Note that patent application numbers are generally different from patent numbers. If you need this, please use the Template:Cite patent template with the optional application parameter.

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