Talk:List of Edison patents

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[edit] All links broken

None of the external links on this page work, they all list to a page on http://patft.uspto.gov stating that no patent can be found by that name. Not sure what can be done about this, it looks like a pretty big job to update all the links. R-T-C 22:44, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

The problem is caused by the USPTO site now requiring 7 digits in the patent number (adding leading zeros to pad it if less than seven). Since patent 1,000,000 occurred in 1911, relatively few searches will have the problem, except for us history buffs. --Blainster 05:56, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Either add a 0 to the template OR add a 0 too the 6-digit number (ex: "333333" -> "0333333"). 204.56.7.1 16:57, 8 June 2006 (UTC) (PS, my preference is for the latter.)

BTW, design patents are only 6-digits. 204.56.7.1

They are fixed now. 134.193.168.245 18:58, 8 June 2006 (UTC)